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/ˈflaʊ̯ndəː/ · noun
A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus)..
Water Souchy. Eels, whitings, soles, flounders, and mackerel are generally used. Stew it in clear fish stock, until done, eight minutes will be enough; add cayenne, catsup, an anchovy, and any other flavouring ingredient; let it boil up, skim, and serve hot altogether in a tureen.
Blackfishing from the beach. I've done my research. Hundreds of shipwrecks line the Jersey coast, and many of them are close enough to reach with a long cast on a dead-low tide. These wrecks hold tautog, porgies, sea bass, flounder.
He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well.
They have floundered on from blunder to blunder.
These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!
He is assessing directions, but he is not lost, not floundering.
an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity
[…] I'm floundering at sloppy deliberation in the choice of every new word, and thus damned up in my soul is left to rot. The limit of my foremind to tap and drain onto paper any flow from my residue of self-saturated thoughts is usually half a page at any one sitting.
Use flounder when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flounder means A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus)..
Common synonyms include faulter, stagger.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Water Souchy. Eels, whitings, soles, flounders, and mackerel are generally used. Stew it in clear fish stock, until done, eight minutes will be enough; add cayenne, catsup, an anchovy, and any other flavouring ingredient; let it boil up, skim, and serve hot altogether in a tureen.
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