Usually means: Struggling ineffectively; lacking direction, progress.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. floundering: Merriam-Webster
  2. floundering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. floundering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Floundering, floundering: Wordnik
  5. floundering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. floundering: Wiktionary
  7. Floundering, floundering: Dictionary.com
  8. floundering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Floundering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Floundering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Floundering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. floundering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. floundering: FreeDictionary.org
  14. floundering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. floundering: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. floundering: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. floundering: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. floundering: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Floundering: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See flounder as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (floundering)

noun:  The act of one who flounders; a clumsy struggle.

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