| Main Entry: | wander |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move about aimlessly |
Synonyms: |
aberrate, amble, circumambulate, circumlocute, circumnutate, cruise, deviate, divagate, diverge, drift, float, follow one's nose, gad, gallivant*, globe-trot, hike, hopscotch, jaunt, maunder, meander, peregrinate, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, saunter, straggle, stray, stroll, take to the road, trail, traipse, tramp, trek, vagabond, walk the tracks |
Antonyms: |
stay |
| Main Entry: | wander |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | digress; get lost |
Synonyms: |
babble, depart, deviate, divagate, diverge, err, get off the track, get sidetracked, go astray, go off on a tangent, lose one's way, lose train of thought, ramble, rave, shift, stray, swerve, talk nonsense, veer |
Antonyms: |
go direct, stay |
| Main Entry: | wandering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meandering |
Synonyms: |
jaunting, roaming, roving, strolling, traveling, trekking, wayfaring, winding |
| Main Entry: | wandering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nomadic |
Synonyms: |
drifting, itinerant, migratory, mobile |
| Main Entry: | wandering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itinerant |
Synonyms: |
deviating, devious, digressive, drifting, errant, erratic, excursive, landloping, meandering, migrant, migratory, nomadic, planetary, rambling, roaming, roving, straying, traveling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wayfaring |
| Main Entry: | aberration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | different from that expected |
Synonyms: |
departure, deviation, difference, distortion, divergence, diversion, irregularity, lapse, straying, wandering |
Antonyms: |
conformity, sameness |
| Main Entry: | aimless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having no goal |
Synonyms: |
accidental, any which way, bits-and-pieces, blind, capricious, careless, casual, chance, desultory, directionless, drifting, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fits and starts, flighty, fortuitous, frivolous, goalless, haphazard, heedless, hit-or-miss, indecisive, indiscriminate, irresolute, objectless, pointless, purposeless, random, shiftless, stray, thoughtless, unavailing, undirected, unguided, unplanned, unpredictable, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wayward |
Antonyms: |
determined, directed, goal-oriented, motivated, pointed, purposeful, resolute |
| Main Entry: | amble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk casually |
Synonyms: |
ankle, boogie, dawdle, drift, gander, hoof it, loiter, meander, mosey, percolate*, ramble, sashay, saunter, stroll, toddle, wander |
Antonyms: |
run |
| Main Entry: | astray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | off the path or right direction |
Synonyms: |
adrift, afield, amiss, awry, gone, lost, off, off course, off the mark, roaming, straying, vanished, wandering, wrong |
Antonyms: |
on course, right, straight |
| Main Entry: | circulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flow |
Synonyms: |
actuate, circle, fly about, get about, get around, go about, gyrate, mill around, mobilize, move around, radiate, revolve, rotate, set off, travel, wander |
Antonyms: |
block |