maundered
Spoke without purpose
Maundered is the past tense of maunder, meaning to talk in a rambling, aimless way or to move or act without purpose.
The word suggests wandering speech or behavior lacking direction: He maundered on about his childhood for an hour.
Someone who maunders through a task does it slowly and inefficiently.
Quiet, unclear speech
- mumblingIndistinct, quiet speech
- babblingIncoherent or infantile speech
- droningSustained monotonous sound
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
digressing · wandering · prattling · blathering · incoherent · disjointed · unfocused · tangential
Traveling with no fixed course
- driftingMoving without purpose
- roamingMoving without fixed purpose
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- amblingWalking without urgency
strolling · sauntering · traipsing · dawdling · loitering · straying · rambling · directionless
muttering
Quiet, unclear speech
- mumblingIndistinct, quiet speech
- babblingIncoherent or infantile speech
- droningSustained monotonous sound
meandering · digressing · wandering · prattling · blathering · incoherent · disjointed · unfocused · tangential · discursive
wandering
Traveling with no fixed course
- driftingMoving without purpose
- roamingMoving without fixed purpose
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
ambling · strolling · sauntering · traipsing · dawdling · loitering · straying · rambling · directionless · purposeless
maunderedgot to the point
Reached the essence
declaimed · pronounced · enunciated · cut to the chase · held forth