Synonyms for vagrant
- noun
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Vagabond — A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some…
vagabond, hobo, drifter, tramp, nomad, wanderer, beggar, waif, loafer, floater, derelict, bum, landloper, stiff, stroller, piker, swagman, clochard, truant dated, scatterling dated
Other
Adjective
1. Itinerant — wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation
itinerant, nomadic, wandering, unsettled, peripatetic, migratory, roving, devious, rambling, vagrom dated
2. Wayward — moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled
wayward, random, erratic, inconstant, vague, stray, desultory
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
- n. 2
A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighbourhood begging for food.
- adj. 1
Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.
- adj. 2
Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.
Related words
- Word family
- vagrancy vagrantlike vagrom vagary
Forms
- Plural
- vagrants → vagabonds, hobos, drifters, tramps…
Example sentences
- tramp Don't tramp in the living room with muddy feet.
- hobo A hobo found his way into that abandoned store somehow.
- drifter Jonas immediately recognized the drifter.
- vagabond The vagabond, when rich, is called a tourist.
By length
- 3 letters
- bum1
- 4 letters
- hobo2, waif1
- 5 letters
- stiff1, vague1, rover2, stray1, tramp1, nomad2, piker2
- 6 letters
- random2, beggar2, roving2, loafer2, truant2, vagrom
- 7 letters
- erratic3, nomadic3, wayward2, devious3, drifter2, floater2, aimless2, swagman
- 8 letters
- floating2, drifting2, rambling2, derelict3, stroller2, wanderer3, vagabond3, clochard
- 9 letters
- wandering3, unsettled3, migratory4, itinerant4, desultory4, straggler2, landloper
- 10 letters
- inconstant
- 11 letters
- extravagant4, peripatetic5, scatterling
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hobo2 = 2 syllables).