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Ranging
| Main Entry: |
ranging
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grazing |
| Synonyms: | feeding, pasturing |
| Main Entry: | ranging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving over wide areas |
| Synonyms: | covering, extensive, roaming, roving, spanning, sweeping, traversing, widespread |
| Main Entry: | errant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; deviant |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, deviating, devious, drifting, errable, erratic, erring, fallible, heretic, meandering, misbehaving, mischievous, miscreant, naughty, off straight and narrow, offending, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting, sinning, stray, straying, unorthodox, unreliable, wandering, wayward |
| Notes: | an errand is a short trip that is taken for a specific purpose; arrant means thoroughgoing - downright - out-and-out - extreme - notorious; errant means wandering or roving especially in search of adventure - deviating or straying from an appointed course - straying from the proper standards - moving aimlessly or irregularly |
| Antonyms: | correct, righteous |
| Main Entry: | itinerant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roaming |
| Synonyms: | afoot, ambulant, ambulatory, floating, gypsy, journeying, migratory, moving, nomadic, on foot, peripatetic, ranging, riding the rails, roving, shifting, travelling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring |
| Antonyms: | permanent, settled |
| Main Entry: | migrant/migratory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving, traveling |
| Synonyms: | casual, changing, drifting, 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 |
| Antonyms: | staying |
| Main Entry: | extending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reaching |
| Synonyms: | approaching, continual, continuing, continuous, endless, going on, lengthening, perpetual, ranging, spanning, spreading, stretching |
| Main Entry: | grazing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | keeping livestock on the range |
| Synonyms: | feeding, herding, pasturing, ranging |
| Main Entry: | migrational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | migratory |
| Synonyms: | casual, changing, drifting, emigrating, errant, gypsy, 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 |
| Main Entry: | protractile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensible |
| Synonyms: | approaching, continual, continuing, continuous, endless, expansible, expansile, extendible, extensile, going on, lengthening, perpetual, ranging, spanning, spreading, stretch, stretchable, stretching |
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