| Main Entry: | roam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander about |
Synonyms: |
bum around, bum*, drift, gad, gallivant, hike, hit the road, knock around, meander, peregrinate, prowl, ramble, range, rove, saunter, straggle, stray, stroll, struggle along, traipse, tramp, travel, traverse, trek, vagabond, walk |
| 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: | 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: | digress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stray, deviate |
Synonyms: |
aberrate, be diffuse, beat about the bush, circumlocute, depart, divagate, drift, excurse, get off the point, get off the subject, get sidetracked, go by way of, go off on a tangent, long way, meander, ramble, roam, swerve, turn aside, veer, wander, wander away |
Antonyms: |
be direct, stay |
| Main Entry: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
Synonyms: |
deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
| Main Entry: | errant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; deviant |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, deviating, devious, drifting, errable, erratic, erring, fallible, heretic, meandering, misbehaving, mischievous, miscreant, naughty, off straight and narrow, offending, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting, sinning, stray, straying, unorthodox, unreliable, wandering, wayward |
| Notes: | an errand is a short trip that is taken for a specific purpose; arrant means thoroughgoing - downright - out-and-out - extreme - notorious; errant means wandering or roving especially in search of adventure - deviating or straying from an appointed course - straying from the proper standards - moving aimlessly or irregularly |
Antonyms: |
correct, righteous |
| Main Entry: | gallivant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run around, gad about |
Synonyms: |
cruise, jaunt, meander, mooch, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, traipse, wander |
Antonyms: |
behave |
| Main Entry: | hang about/hang around/hang out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | associate with; be residing in |
Synonyms: |
abide, affect, dally, frequent, get along with, haunt, have relations with, linger, live, loiter, reside, resort, roam, spend time, stand around, swell, tarry, waste time |
Antonyms: |
condemn |
| Main Entry: | journey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excursion |
Synonyms: |
adventure, airing, beat, campaign, caravan, circuit, constitutional, course, crossing, drive, expedition, exploration, hike, itinerary, jaunt, junket, march, migration, odyssey, outing, passage, patrol, peregrination, pilgrimage, progress, promenade, quest, ramble, range, roaming, round, route, run, safari, sally, saunter, sojourn, stroll, survey, tour, tramp, transit, transmigration, travel, traveling, traverse, trek, trip, vagabondage, vagrancy, venture, visit, voyage, wandering, wayfaring |
| Main Entry: | journey |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | travel |
Synonyms: |
circuit, cruise, fare, fly, globe trot, go, go places, hie, hop, jaunt, jet, junket, knock about, pass, peregrinate, proceed, process, push on, ramble, range, repair, roam, rove, safari, take a trip, tour, traverse, trek, voyage, wander, wend |
Antonyms: |
stay, wait |