Tumbleweed

Quick meaning: Tumbleweed is a noun meaning A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.

Meaning

A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.

More Meanings

1. Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc.
2. (attributive) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.

Example Sentences

“Why do families argue?” may only induce the tumbleweed response. (Could you answer that question out of the blue?)

Putting an ad in the local paper that Spock's Beard and Arena are in town will get you a tumbleweed response and some wasted revenue.

Word Forms

• tumbleweeds

Synonyms for tumbleweed

Depending on context, synonyms include roly-poly, steppe-witch, wind-witch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rattleweed, wilding, windle, tarweed, windgrass, wildflower.

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