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flounder
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural flounder or flounders
plural flounder or flounders
Learner's definition of FLOUNDER
[count]
: a type of fish that has a flat body and that is eaten as food鲆鱼；鲽鱼 — see color picture on this page
2 flounder /ˈflaʊndɚ/ verb
flounders; floundered; floundering
2 flounder
/ˈflaʊndɚ/
verb
flounders; floundered; floundering
Learner's definition of FLOUNDER
[no object]
1
: to move in an awkward way with a lot of difficulty and effort : struggle挣扎着行走；踉跄
- The horses were floundering through the deep snow.马匹在深雪中艰难行进。
- He was floundering around in the pool like an amateur.他像个业余选手似的在游泳池里挣扎着。
2
a : to be unsure about what to do or say不知所措；支吾
- After watching me flounder for a few minutes, my instructor took over.老师看到我支吾了好几分钟，就替我把话接过去了。
b : to have a lot of problems and difficulties困难重重；陷于困境
- The team has been floundering [=struggling] since the start of the season.球队自本赛季开始以来一直举步维艰。
floun·der ˈflau̇n-dər 
plural flounder or flounders
: flatfish
especially : any of various marine fishes (families Pleuronectidae, Paralichthyidae, and Bothidae) that include important food fishes
Did you know?
Flounder is a relatively common verb that current evidence dates to the late 16th century, when it was likely born by means of an alteration of an older verb, founder. The two have been confused ever since. Today, founder is most often used as a synonym of fail, or, in the case of a waterborne vessel, as a word meaning "to fill with water and sink." Formerly, it was also frequently applied when a horse stumbled badly and was unable to keep walking. It's likely this sense of founder led to the original and now-obsolete meaning of flounder: "to stumble." In modern use, flounder typically means "to struggle" or "to act clumsily"; the word lacks the finality of founder, which usually denotes complete collapse or failure, as that of a sunken ship.
Example Sentences
Verb The horses were floundering through the deep snow. He was floundering around in the pool like an amateur. After watching me flounder for a few minutes, my instructor took over.
Recent Examples on the Web
al, 12 Aug. 2022 Joe Fabiano has had a boat for most of his life, often taking it out to Boston Harbor to cast a line and catch flounder and stripers. Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022 Airline prides itself on offering the freshest Gulf seafood, including red fish, grouper, flounder and snow crab. Megha Mcswain, Chron, 13 June 2022 Fishermen can catch blue crab, spotted and sand seatrout, sea catfish, red drum, and southern flounder in the island's waters. Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2022 Their meat is as white and flaky as any cod or flounder, perhaps even better. Jason Nark, Washington Post, 17 May 2022 Matanzas on the Bay has everything from Gulf shrimp to Ahi tuna, plus lobster tail, snapper, grouper and flounder. Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022 The rules apply to valuable species that are harvested in the Northeast such as cod, haddock and flounder. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2022 Regulators have tried to save the fishery with management measures such as very low fishing quotas, and many fishermen targeting other East Coast groundfish species such as haddock and flounder now avoid cod altogether. Patrick Whittle, courant.com, 31 Mar. 2022 Veronica Dagher, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022 Having employees flounder around trying to figure out a tech issue that could be answered simply creates frustration and costs time and lost productivity. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 July 2022 Examples include mackerel over tuna or fluke/flounder over halibut. Amy Fischer Ms, Rd, Cdn, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022 While Putin seemed to flounder in the first three months of the conflict — angry, on the defensive and almost disappearing from view — Patrushev stepped forward to justify the invasion and promote Russia’s war aims. Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 13 July 2022 Though many of those would flounder (remember The Love Guru? Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022 To land a job as a program manager, a candidate would have to flounder and guess how many golf balls fit in a bus or create an evacuation plan for the entire city of San Francisco. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2022 In any career, there are top performers, folks who do well, those who get by and others who flounder and fail. Don Daszkowski, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021 Hopefully the push to give ESG the CRT treatment will flounder and further divide capital against itself. Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 23 May 2022 See More
Noun
Little Lagoon, once a fishing mecca for mullet and flounder, has long been transformed into a brackish waterway infiltrated with algae blooms. al, 12 Aug. 2022 Joe Fabiano has had a boat for most of his life, often taking it out to Boston Harbor to cast a line and catch flounder and stripers. Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022 Airline prides itself on offering the freshest Gulf seafood, including red fish, grouper, flounder and snow crab. Megha Mcswain, Chron, 13 June 2022 Fishermen can catch blue crab, spotted and sand seatrout, sea catfish, red drum, and southern flounder in the island's waters. Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2022 Their meat is as white and flaky as any cod or flounder, perhaps even better. Jason Nark, Washington Post, 17 May 2022 Matanzas on the Bay has everything from Gulf shrimp to Ahi tuna, plus lobster tail, snapper, grouper and flounder. Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022 The rules apply to valuable species that are harvested in the Northeast such as cod, haddock and flounder. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2022 Regulators have tried to save the fishery with management measures such as very low fishing quotas, and many fishermen targeting other East Coast groundfish species such as haddock and flounder now avoid cod altogether. Patrick Whittle, courant.com, 31 Mar. 2022 Verb
New retirees who neglect to plan can flounder without the structure of their careers, unsure how to fill their days, some retirees and advisers say. Veronica Dagher, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022 Having employees flounder around trying to figure out a tech issue that could be answered simply creates frustration and costs time and lost productivity. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 July 2022 Examples include mackerel over tuna or fluke/flounder over halibut. Amy Fischer Ms, Rd, Cdn, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022 While Putin seemed to flounder in the first three months of the conflict — angry, on the defensive and almost disappearing from view — Patrushev stepped forward to justify the invasion and promote Russia’s war aims. Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 13 July 2022 Though many of those would flounder (remember The Love Guru? Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022 To land a job as a program manager, a candidate would have to flounder and guess how many golf balls fit in a bus or create an evacuation plan for the entire city of San Francisco. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2022 In any career, there are top performers, folks who do well, those who get by and others who flounder and fail. Don Daszkowski, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021 Hopefully the push to give ESG the CRT treatment will flounder and further divide capital against itself. Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 23 May 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian flundra flounder
Verb
probably alteration of founder
First Known Use
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined above
Verb
1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of flounder was in the 15th century Phrases Containing flounder
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