| Main Entry: |
vagabond
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| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
unsettled; vagrant |
| Synonyms: |
aimless,
destitute, down-and-out, drifting,
errant, fancy-free, fly-by-night, footloose,
idle,
itinerant, itinerate, journeying, mendicant, migratory,
moving,
nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic,
prodigal,
rambling, roaming, rootless, roving, sauntering, shifting, shiftless, straggling,
stray, strolling,
transient, travelling,
unsettled,
wandering, wayfaring,
wayward
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| Notes: |
a vagabond refers to a person who leads a carefree, roaming existence; a vagrant ekes out a living by begging and is often considered a nuisance |
| Antonyms: |
inhabiting, settled
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