| Main Entry: | migratory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving to another place |
Synonyms: |
mobile, moving, nomadic, roving, seasonal, transient, unsettled, wandering |
| Main Entry: | itinerant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roaming |
Synonyms: |
afoot, ambulant, ambulatory, floating, gypsy, journeying, migratory, moving, nomadic, on foot, peripatetic, ranging, riding the rails, roving, shifting, travelling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring |
Antonyms: |
permanent, settled |
| Main Entry: | migrant/migratory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving, traveling |
Synonyms: |
casual, changing, drifting, emigrating, errant, gypsy, immigrant, immigrating, impermanent, itinerant, migrative, migratorial, mobile, nomad, nomadic, on the move, passing over, passing through, peripatetic, ranging, roving, seasonal, shifting, temporary, tramp, transient, transmigratory, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering |
Antonyms: |
staying |
| Main Entry: | mobile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | movable, travelling |
Synonyms: |
adaptable, ambulatory, changeable, fluid, free, itinerant, liquid, locomotive, loose, migrant, migratory, motile, motorized, moving, mutable, nomadic, peripatetic, portable, roaming, roving, unsettled, unstable, unstationary, unsteadfast, unsteady, versatile, wandering |
Antonyms: |
fixed, immobile, stable, stationary, unmovable |
| 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: | outgoing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | leaving |
Synonyms: |
departing, ex-, former, last, migratory, outbound, outward-bound, past, retiring, withdrawing |
Antonyms: |
arriving, entering, incoming |
| 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: | wandering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nomadic |
Synonyms: |
drifting, itinerant, migratory, mobile |
| Main Entry: | roaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving around |
Synonyms: |
ambulatory, discursive, itinerant, meandering, migratory, nomadic, perambulatory, peripatetic, prodigal, roving, vagarious, vagrant, wandering |
| Main Entry: | roving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving around |
Synonyms: |
ambulatory, arrant, desultory, digressive, discursive, itinerant, migratory, mobile, nomadic, peregrine, peripatetic, roaming, vagrant, wandering |