| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Flounder.[Websters]
2. To be vexed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have waggled, tossed, fidgeted, disturbed or whisked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be soled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have wiggled, affected or actuated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be unsettled, deranged or darkened. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have stirred, joggled, wriggled, incited or ruffled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be unmanned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have churned, moved, perturbed or budged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be battered or crumpled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb flounder.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flounder) | 1. Walk with great difficulty.[Wordnet]. 2. Behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in college".[Wordnet]. 3. To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: floundering, floundered, flounders, flounderer, flounderers, flounderingly and flounderedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLOUNDERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1716. (references) |
Specialty Definition: flounder
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A flat fish of the genus Pleuronectes.. | 2: [Verb] To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle as a horse in the mire; to roll, toss and tumble.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Health | Common name for two families of fish belonging to the order Pleuronectiformes and described as left-eye flounders and right-eye flounders. The latter is more commonly used in research. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (countable) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae. (references) | 2: [Verb] (intransitive) To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered. He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well. (references) | 3: [Verb] (intransitive) To flop around as a fish out of water. (references) | 4: [Verb] (intransitive) To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance. Robert yanked Connie's leg vigorously, causing her to flounder and eventually fall. (references) |
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Common Expressions: flounder
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Atomic Flounder | The Atomic Flounder is a fictional character on the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. He was in the Mermaid Man & Barnical Boy 2 as a retired villain. He can blast hot radioactive beams from his mouth. SpongeBob threatened him when and when Barnacle Boy tried to help the Atomic Flounder because he had already retired from crime. The Atomic Flounder got mad and blasted Barnicle Boy, Barnicle Boy was burnt to a crisp and SpongeBob treated him. Atomic Flounder's costume is orange with a mask. (references) | ||
| Blackback flounder | Important American food fish in the winter. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Craig flounder | The pole flounder. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Gray flounder | Flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Grey flounder | Flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Lefteye flounder | Flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Lefteyed flounder | Flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Pole flounder | (Zo["o]l.), a large deep-water flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food fish; -- called also craig flounder , and pole fluke . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Righteye flounder | Flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Righteyed flounder | Flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Southern flounder | Flounder of southern United States. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Southern flounder | The southern (or armless) flounders are a small family of flounders found in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters. (references) | ||
| Summer flounder | Flounder of eastern coast of North America. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| USS Flounder (SS-251) | USS Flounder (SS-251), a Gato class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flounder, a valuable food fish, many varieties of which are found in great schools along the Atlantic coast north of Cape Cod. (references) | ||
| Water flounder | The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Winter flounder | 1: (Zo["o]l.) See the Note under Flounder . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Important American food fish in the winter. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 3: Flesh of American flounder; important in the winter. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Yellowtail flounder | 1: American flounder having a yellowish tail. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Flesh of American flounder having a yellowish tail. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
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