Welter meaning

Noun: welter

Pronunciation: (wel-tu(r))

Welter meaning: A confused multitude of things. A chaotic mass or jumble.

Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, muddle

Verb: welter

Welter meaning:

• Be immersed in
• Roll about or lie in water or mud or other liquid
• Rise and fall in an uncontrolled way

weltering, welters, weltered

Quotations: David Brown – There will be a welter of data ahead of the holiday period, which will leave the markets a bit shell-shocked.

Sue Feldman – There is a welter of information today, and it’s only increasing. Search firms recognize that knowledge workers and even consumers need better ways to sort through information. That’s what’s driving innovation, and we’ll continue to see better and better search capability because of it.

Buddha – It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (languor), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

B. C. Forbes – It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at AGMs, how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

William James – There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

Sample sentences:

1. We all have a welter of self induced miseries and joys.
2. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion.
3. Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
4. The shipwrecked sailors weltered in the sea for many hours.
5. It is likely that the emphasis upon the metaphysical and epistemological implications of the sociology of knowledge can be traced, in part, to the fact that the first proponents of this discipline stemmed largely from philosophical rather than scientific circles. The burden of further research is to turn from this welter of conflicting opinion to empirical investigations which may establish in adequate detail the uniformities pertaining to the appearance, acceptance and diffusion, or rejection and repression, development and consequences of knowledge and ideas.
6. Monsters merge and welter through the water’s mounting Din. All hands, stand fast! A sailor sprints aloft, hangs, swelling spider-like, among invisible nets, surveys his slowly undulating snares, and waits.
7. Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow.
8. Lay down with beasts, and welter in my gore.
9. The conference room was in a welter when the professor did not show up.
10. The Government requested military forces to control the welter after the floods.