'Veering' definitions:
Definition of 'veering'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Veering'
From: GCIDE
- Veering \Veer"ing\, a. Shifting. -- {Veer"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Veering'
From: GCIDE
- Veer \Veer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Veered; p. pr. & vb. n. Veering.] [F. virer (cf. Sp. virar, birar), LL. virare; perhaps fr. L. vibrare to brandish, vibrate (cf. Vibrate); or cf. L. viriae armlets, bracelets, viriola a little bracelet (cf. Ferrule). Cf. Environ.] To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north. "His veering gait." --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- And as he leads, the following navy veers. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- To veer and haul (Naut.), to vary the course or direction; -- said of the wind, which veers aft and hauls forward. The wind is also said to veer when it shifts with the sun. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'veering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- broken,
- capricious,
- careening,
- catchy,
- choppy,
- circuitous,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discursive,
- eccentric,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- guttering,
- halting,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- immethodical,
- inconstant,
- indirect,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- irregular,
- jerky,
- labyrinthine,
- lurching,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- nonuniform,
- out-of-the-way,
- patchy,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rough,
- roving,
- scrappy,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- snaky,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- staggering,
- stray,
- swerving,
- turning,
- twisting,
- uncertain,
- undirected,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsteady,
- unsystematic,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- winding,
- wobbling,
- wobbly,
- zigzag