| Main Entry: | ambulatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changing position; able to move under own power |
Synonyms: |
ambulant, itinerant, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, roving, vagabond, vagrant |
Antonyms: |
steady, stiff, unchanging |
| Main Entry: | nomadic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itinerant |
Synonyms: |
drifting, gypsy, itinerate, migrant, migratory, pastoral, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, roaming, roving, traveling, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring |
Antonyms: |
native, settled |
| Main Entry: | vagabond |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsettled; vagrant |
Synonyms: |
aimless, destitute, down-and-out, drifting, errant, fancy-free, fly-by-night, footloose, idle, itinerant, itinerate, journeying, mendicant, migratory, moving, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, prodigal, rambling, roaming, rootless, roving, sauntering, shifting, shiftless, straggling, stray, strolling, transient, travelling, unsettled, wandering, wayfaring, wayward |
| Notes: | a vagabond refers to a person who leads a carefree, roaming existence; a vagrant ekes out a living by begging and is often considered a nuisance |
Antonyms: |
inhabiting, settled |
| Main Entry: | wayfaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traveling |
Synonyms: |
drifting, gadabout, globe-trotting, itinerant, itinerate, jet-setting, journeying, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, rambling, roving, rubbernecking, vagabond, vagrant, voyaging, walking, wandering |
Antonyms: |
unmoving |
| Main Entry: | roaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving around |
Synonyms: |
ambulatory, discursive, itinerant, meandering, migratory, nomadic, perambulatory, peripatetic, prodigal, roving, vagarious, vagrant, wandering |