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View usage for: (wɒndərɪŋ) adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]Wandering is used to describe people who travel around rather than staying in one place for a long time. [literary] ...a band of wandering musicians. Synonyms: itinerant, travelling, journeying, roving More Synonyms of wandering wandering in American English (ˈwɑndərɪŋ) adjective1. that wanders; moving from place to place; roaming, roving, straying, etc. 2. nomadic said of tribes, peoples, etc. 3. winding said of rivers and roads noun4. an aimless going about 5. [pl.] travels, esp. when extended and apparently purposeless 6. [pl.] incoherent or disordered thoughts or utterances Derived forms wanderingly (ˈwanderingly) adverb Examples of 'wandering' in a sentencewandering Maybe his mind was wandering, maybe I couldn't make him out.Hillsden spent his spare time wandering along the cliffs above the sea.She did pick up a handwoven tote bag and lock the door in case of wandering tourists.No DEA agent, no informant, no journalist or wandering paparazzi had ever succeeded in photographing Moncada. a band of wandering musicians Synonyms journeying roving drifting homeless strolling voyaging unsettled roaming rambling vagabond wayfaring Seeitinerant- wander off
- wander off something
- wanderer
- wandering
- wanderlust
- wane
- wangle
Related terms ofwandering - wander
- wander off
- wander off something
Additional synonymsDefinition having no sense of belonging rootless young people Synonyms footloose, homeless, roving, transient, itinerant, vagabondtroupes of travelling actors Synonyms itinerant, moving, touring, mobile, wandering, unsettled, roaming, migrant, restless, roving, nomadic, migratory, peripatetic, wayfaringDefinition wandering about a vagrant hitchhiker Synonyms vagabond, drifting, wandering, homeless, journeying, unsettled, roaming, idle, roving, nomadic, destitute, itinerant, down and out, rootless, footloose, fly-by-night (informal), shiftlessSynonyms roving, walking, travelling, journeying, drifting, wandering, voyaging, rambling, nomadic, itinerant, peripatetic |