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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wayfaring |
| Synonyms: | floating, moving, rambling, roaming, traveling, wandering |
| Main Entry: | rove |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander |
| Synonyms: | drift, gad, gallivant, meander, move, prowl, ramble, range, roam, straggle, stray, stroll |
| Main Entry: | ambulatory |
| 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: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
| Synonyms: | deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
| 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: | erratic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpredictable; wandering |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bizarre, capricious, changeable, desultory, devious, dicey, directionless, dubious, eccentric, fitful, flaky*, fluctuant, idiosyncratic, iffy, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, meandering, mercurial, nomadic, oddball, peculiar, planetary, rambling, roving, shifting, spasmodic, strange, stray, uncertain, undirected, unnatural, unreliable, unstable, unusual, vagarious, variable, volatile, wayward, weird, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | certain, consistent, definite, dependable, predictable, regular, reliable, steady, sure, unchanging |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | mobile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | movable, travelling |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, ambulatory, changeable, fluid, free, itinerant, liquid, locomotive, loose, migrant, migratory, motile, motorized, moving, mutable, nomadic, peripatetic, portable, roaming, roving, unsettled, unstable, unstationary, unsteadfast, unsteady, versatile, wandering |
| Antonyms: | fixed, immobile, stable, stationary, unmovable |
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