wandering (n.)

  1. travelling about without any clear destination; she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him

    [ Syn: roving , vagabondage ]

    wandering (adj.)

  1. 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

    [ Syn: mobile , nomadic , peregrine , roving ]

  2. of a path e.g.; meandering streams; rambling forest paths; the river followed its wandering course; a winding country road

    [ Syn: meandering , rambling , winding ]

  3. having no fixed course; an erratic comet; his life followed a wandering course; a planetary vagabond

    [ Syn: erratic , planetary ]

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