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perambulatory
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changing position; able to move under own power |
| Synonyms: | ambulant, itinerant, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, roving, vagabond, vagrant |
| Antonyms: | steady, stiff, unchanging |
| Main Entry: | vagabond |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | wayfaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traveling |
| Synonyms: | drifting, gadabout, globe-trotting, itinerant, itinerate, jet-setting, journeying, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, rambling, roving, rubbernecking, vagabond, vagrant, voyaging, walking, wandering |
| Antonyms: | unmoving |
| Main Entry: | roaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving around |
| Synonyms: | ambulatory, discursive, itinerant, meandering, migratory, nomadic, perambulatory, peripatetic, prodigal, roving, vagarious, vagrant, wandering |
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