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wallow | undefined |

As adjectives the difference between wallow and undefined

is that wallow is tasteless, flat while undefined is lacking a definition or value.

As a verb wallow

is to roll oneself about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

As a noun wallow

is an instance of wallowing.

wallow

English

Alternative forms

* waller (eye dialect)

Etymology 1

(etyl) wealwian, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To roll oneself about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
  • Pigs wallow in the mud.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I may wallow in the lily beds.
  • To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
  • She wallowed in her misery.
  • * The Simpsons (TV series)
  • With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
  • To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean, as a hog might do to dust its body to relieve the distress of insect biting or cool its body with mud.
  • To live in filth or gross vice; to behave in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  • * South
  • God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
  • (intransitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade.
  • Usage notes
    In the sense of “to immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with”, it is almost exclusively used for self-indulgent negative emotions, particularly self-pity. See synonyms for general or positive alternatives, such as (revel).
    Synonyms
    * (to immerse oneself in) bask, delight, indulge, luxuriate, revel, rollick

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of wallowing.
  • A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
  • A kind of rolling walk.
  • Etymology 2

    (From inflected forms of) (etyl) . Compare (waugh).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tasteless, flat.
  • undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
  • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined