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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wayfaring |
| Synonyms: | floating, moving, rambling, roaming, traveling, wandering |
| Main Entry: | roving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving around |
| Synonyms: | ambulatory, arrant, desultory, digressive, discursive, itinerant, migratory, mobile, nomadic, peregrine, peripatetic, roaming, vagrant, wandering |
| 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: | gad |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | roam about |
| Synonyms: | cruise, gallivant, hit the road, hit the trail, jaunt, knock about, knock around, maunder, mooch, ramble, range, rove, run around, stray, traipse, wander |
| Main Entry: | gallivant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run around, gad about |
| Synonyms: | cruise, jaunt, meander, mooch, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, traipse, wander |
| Antonyms: | behave |
| Main Entry: | hike |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk for recreation |
| Synonyms: | backpack, explore, hit the road, hoof, leg it, ramble, rove, stroll, stump, tour, tramp, travel, tromp |
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