drifting

adrift

aground ashore beached docked

desultory erratic frivolous haphazard indiscriminate pointless random

accidental any which way bits and pieces blind capricious careless casual chance directionless fanciful fickle fits and starts flighty fortuitous goalless heedless hit-or-miss indecisive irresolute objectless purposeless shiftless stray thoughtless unavailing undirected unguided unplanned unpredictable vagrant wandering wanton wayward

definite methodical particular sensible specific systematic

determined directed goal-oriented motivated pointed purposeful resolute

borne lugged toted

aberrant erratic offending stray unorthodox wayward

deviating devious errable erring fallible heretic meandering misbehaving mischievous miscreant naughty off straight and narrow rambling ranging roaming roving shifting sinning straying unreliable wandering

normal

correct righteous

aerial floating soaring

express flapping fleet fluttering gliding hovering mobile plumed streaming swooping waving winging zooming

aeronautical airborne avian mercurial on the wing speedy volant volar volitant

loafing lolling resting

active

casual changing emigrating errant gypsy immigrant immigrating impermanent itinerant migrative migratorial mobile nomad nomadic on the move passing over passing through peripatetic ranging roving seasonal shifting temporary tramp transient transmigratory unsettled vagabond vagrant wandering

staying

casual changing emigrating errant immigrant immigrating impermanent itinerant migrant migrative migratorial mobile nomad nomadic on the move passing over passing through peripatetic ranging roving seasonal shifting temporary tramp transient transmigratory unsettled vagabond vagrant wandering

pastoral peripatetic wandering

itinerate migrant migratory perambulant perambulatory roaming roving traveling vagabond vagrant wayfaring

native settled

aimless designless desultory empty feckless floundering fustian goalless good-for-nothing haphazard hit-or-miss indiscriminate irregular meaningless motiveless needless nonsensical pointless purportless random senseless uncalled for undirected unhelpful unnecessary unplanned unprofitable unpurposed vacuous wanton worthless

decided deliberate determined planned purposeful significant useful

changing emigrating errant immigrant immigrating impermanent itinerant migrant migrational migrative migratorial mobile nomad nomadic on the move passing over passing through peripatetic ranging roving seasonal shifting temporary transient unsettled vagrant wandering

down-and-out fly-by-night idle itinerant journeying mendicant moving peripatetic prodigal rambling roaming rootless roving sauntering shifting straggling stray strolling transient travelling unsettled wandering wayfaring

aimless destitute errant fancy-free footloose migratory nomadic perambulant perambulatory shiftless wayward

fixed permanent settled unmoving

inhabiting

itinerant

mobile

migratory

meandering nomadic roving

deviating migrant rambling roaming straying traveling unsettled vagabond vagrant wayfaring

devious digressive errant erratic excursive landloping migratory planetary

settled

gadabout itinerant journeying peripatetic roving vagabond vagrant walking wandering

globetrotting itinerate jet-setting nomadic perambulant perambulatory rambling rubbernecking voyaging

settled

unmoving

afloat

loose unanchored unmoored

anchored on course tied down

rowing sailing

canoeing cruising paddling sculling trawling yachting

detour footnote

apostrophe aside deflection departure difference divagation divergence diversion episode excursion excursus incident note parenthesis variation wandering

discursion obiter dictum rambling

accord agreement sameness similarity

directness straightness

apostrophe aside deflection departure detour deviation difference divagation divergence divergency diversion episode excursion excursus footnote incident note parenthesis tangent variation wandering

discursion obiter dictum rambling

accord agreement conformity sameness similarity uniformity

apostrophe aside deflection departure detour deviation difference divagation divergence divergency diversion episode excursion excursus footnote incident irrelevancy note tangent variation wandering

discursion obiter dictum rambling

accord agreement conformity sameness similarity uniformity