Synonyms for wandering
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Roving
roving, nomadic, unsettled, restless, stray, vagabond, vagrant, itinerant, random, errant, wanton, fugitive, migratory, extravagant, mobile, peregrine, wayfaring, excursive, nomad, fickle, inconstant, unstable
2. Rambling
rambling, meandering, desultory, winding, aberrant, discursive, devious, indirect, digressive
Noun
Definitions
- adj. 1
Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
- adj. 2
Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
a wandering kidney; a wandering liver
- n. 1
Travelling without preset route; roaming.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- wanderings → strollings, roamings, rambles, ravings…
Example sentences
- restless The longer we stayed, the more restless we became.
- unsettled Americans appear unsettled and uncontrolled to Japanese.
- nomadic Nomadic peoples follow the water and grazing land.
- rambling I heard him rambling, the words entirely disconnected.
- meandering Ziri was meandering the park when he saw something terrifying.
By length
- 5 letters
- vague1, stray1, nomad2
- 6 letters
- mobile2, random2, fickle2, raving2, roving2, errant2, wanton2, ramble2
- 7 letters
- ranging2, winding2, roaming2, erratic3, nomadic3, devious3, vagrant2
- 8 letters
- indirect3, unstable3, restless2, fugitive3, rambling2, delirium4, vagabond3, aberrant3, vagrancy3, errantry
- 9 letters
- departure3, irregular4, planetary4, deviation4, excursion3, unsettled3, migratory4, strolling2, itinerant4, peregrine3, desultory4, wayfaring, excursive, itineracy
- 10 letters
- divergence3, aberration4, meandering4, discursive3, digression3, inconstant, digressive, divagation
- 11 letters
- extravagant4, vagabondage
- 12 letters
- obambulation
- 13 letters
- peregrination
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (nomad2 = 2 syllables).