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Synonyms for wandering
ˈwɒn dər ɪŋwan·der·ing
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
wandering
Synonyms:
roving, vagrant, rambling, strolling, discursive
Princeton's WordNet
wandering, roving, vagabondageadjective
travelling about without any clear destination
"she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
Synonyms:
roving, vagabondagemobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wanderingadjective
migratory
"a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
Synonyms:
mobile, rambling, peregrine, planetary, nomadic, roving, meandering(a), erratic, winding, wandering(a), fluidmeandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), windingadjective
of a path e.g.
"meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"
erratic, planetary, wanderingadjective
having no fixed course
"an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"
Synonyms:
planetal, winding, nomadic, quicksilver(a), rambling, meandering(a), wandering(a), terrestrial, erratic, peregrine, worldwide, planetary, world-wide, mobile, fickle, temperamental, global, world(a), roving, mercurial
Dictionary of English Synonymes
wanderingnoun
Synonyms:
roving, rambling, travelling, travel, peregrination, excursion, range, roamingwanderingnoun
Synonyms:
aberration, deviation from rectitude
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
wanderingadjective
Synonyms:
nomadic, migratory, itinerant, vagrant, vagabond, landloping, wayfaring, errant, unsettled, devious, excursive, digressive, deviatingwanderingnoun
Synonyms:
rambling, ranging, roving, strolling, itineracy, peregrination, pilgrimage, digression, expatiation, departure, deviation, divergence, errantry, aberration, delirium, raving, irrationality, divagation
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#534 | mobile | |
#857 | global | |
#1325 | worldwide | |
#5086 | fluid | |
#12183 | planetary | |
#13732 | terrestrial | |
#14880 | winding | |
#16012 | wandering | |
#17886 | roaming | |
#18651 | stray | |
#24972 | rambling | |
#31949 | erratic | |
#32534 | curfew | |
#32567 | roving | |
#32733 | nomadic | |
#33145 | peregrine | |
#41704 | strolling | |
#47567 | fickle | |
#53297 | discursive | |
#55324 | mercurial | |
#58596 | vagrant | |
#81204 | temperamental |
How to use wandering in a sentence?
It's the antidote to mind wandering, it's paying attention to our present moment experience without editorializing or reacting to it.
John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998:
Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.
We’ve been kind of wandering around just missing them.
The retailers who were wandering around aimlessly pre-pandemic are going to be substantially less likely to muddle through than they were before.
listen! trench town was a healing sanctuary for many a wandering souls in kingston jamaica. I am here now to make sure that this crucial part of our history/my history will be permanently enshrined with us legends and be so protected. No one else can do it.
Translations for wandering
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- erranteSpanish
- سیارPersian
- erranceFrench
- allabanScottish Gaelic
- vagabundoGalician
- vappIcelandic
- vagusLatin
- vagarPortuguese
- vandrandeSwedish
- lang thangVietnamese
- וואַנדערינגYiddish
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