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adjective as in meandering

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adjective as in nomadic

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adjective as in itinerant

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Example Sentences

Later, information emerged that this sea lion is known for its wanderings.

This is counter-intuitive because spontaneous fluctuations and mind-wandering can also lead to depressive rumination and anxiety.

Similar to playing and dreaming is the wandering of our minds.

When psychologists do that, they find that mind-wandering is staggeringly frequent.

Mind-wandering is often considered a harmless quirk, as in the cliché of the scatter-brained professor.

Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.

And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.

After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.

He showed signs of a restless, wandering soul, someone searching for meaning around him.

I spotted American students wandering around London last week dressed in Stars and Stripes shorts and bikini tops.

She observed his pale looks, and the distracted wandering of his eyes; but she would not notice either.

This mode of learning promotes attention and prevents mind-wandering.

He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.

John and Judas became the good and evil Wandering Jews of mediæval folklore.

He was relieved to learn that his grandson Moses Mole was not wandering about the garden, after all.

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Words related to wandering are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word wandering . Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

noun as in different from that expected

• irregularity

adjective as in having no goal

• any which way
• bits and pieces
• directionless
• fits and starts
• hit-or-miss
• indiscriminate
• purposeless
• thoughtless
• unpredictable

adjective, adverb as in off the path or right direction

• off the mark

adjective as in having disordered thoughts and delusions

• flipped-out
• hallucinatory
• lightheaded
• off one's head
• out of one's head
• out of one's skull
• unreasonable

noun as in deviation from normal, expected

• branching off
• branching out
• declination
• latest thing
• new wrinkle

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Synonyms for wandering ˈwɒn dər ɪŋ wan·der·ing, this thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word wandering ., complete dictionary of synonyms and antonyms rate these synonyms: 0.0 / 0 votes.

Synonyms: roving , vagrant , rambling , strolling , discursive

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wandering, roving, vagabondage adjective

travelling about without any clear destination

"she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

Synonyms: roving , vagabondage

Antonyms: settled , direct

mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering adjective

"a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"

Synonyms: mobile , rambling , peregrine , planetary , nomadic , roving , meandering(a) , erratic , winding , wandering(a) , fluid

meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), winding adjective

of a path e.g.

"meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

erratic, planetary, wandering adjective

having no fixed course

"an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"

Synonyms: planetal , winding , nomadic , quicksilver(a) , rambling , meandering(a) , wandering(a) , terrestrial , erratic , peregrine , worldwide , planetary , world-wide , mobile , fickle , temperamental , global , world(a) , roving , mercurial

Antonyms: direct , settled

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wandering noun

Synonyms: roving , rambling , travelling , travel , peregrination , excursion , range , roaming

Synonyms: aberration , deviation from rectitude

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wandering adjective

Synonyms: nomadic , migratory , itinerant , vagrant , vagabond , landloping , wayfaring , errant , unsettled , devious , excursive , digressive , deviating

Synonyms: rambling , ranging , roving , strolling , itineracy , peregrination , pilgrimage , digression , expatiation , departure , deviation , divergence , errantry , aberration , delirium , raving , irrationality , divagation

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List of paraphrases for "wandering":

stray , curfew , roaming

How to pronounce wandering?

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How to use wandering in a sentence.

RAS CARDO REGGAE :

listen! trench town was a healing sanctuary for many a wandering souls in kingston jamaica. I am here now to make sure that this crucial part of our history/my history will be permanently enshrined with us legends and be so protected. No one else can do it.

Walter Scott :

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath neer within him burnd,As home his footsteps he hath turnd,From wandering on a foreign strand!

New York-based :

We didn't know what to do with ourselves without them, we’ve been kind of wandering around just missing them.

Rebecca Latta :

He gave me a huge hug, i think he’s so exhausted that I really think he doesn’t have a lot of words right now and he’s a little bit delirious after five days of wandering around in the forest.

Yasmin Simeonova :

After three years in Buenos Aires, I now have a very strong and passionate relationship with Fernet, i love it and it loves me. We're having fun times until early mornings, in plastic glasses, half-cut bottles of Coke, wandering in streets, below bridges and across borders.

Visual Synonyms of wandering

Translations for wandering, from our multilingual translation dictionary.

• errante Spanish
• سیار Persian
• errance French
• allaban Scottish Gaelic
• vagabundo Galician
• vapp Icelandic
• vagus Latin
• vagar Portuguese
• vandrande Swedish
• lang thang Vietnamese
• וואַנדערינג Yiddish

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[ won -der-ing ]

Crowds of wandering tourists crossed the square.

They were historically a wandering people, moving seasonally through the area.

They followed a wandering path down the mountain.

For our honeymoon we had a period of delightful wandering through Italy.

Her wanderings took her all over the world.

mental wanderings;

the wanderings of delirium.

Wandering by Alzheimer’s patients is a problem in nursing homes.

Other Words From

• wan·der·ing·ly adverb
• wan·der·ing·ness noun
• un·wan·der·ing adjective
• un·wan·der·ing·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of wandering 1

Example Sentences

Later, information emerged that this sea lion is known for its wanderings.

This is counter-intuitive because spontaneous fluctuations and mind-wandering can also lead to depressive rumination and anxiety.

Similar to playing and dreaming is the wandering of our minds.

When psychologists do that, they find that mind-wandering is staggeringly frequent.

Mind-wandering is often considered a harmless quirk, as in the cliché of the scatter-brained professor.

Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.

And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.

After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.

He showed signs of a restless, wandering soul, someone searching for meaning around him.

I spotted American students wandering around London last week dressed in Stars and Stripes shorts and bikini tops.

She observed his pale looks, and the distracted wandering of his eyes; but she would not notice either.

This mode of learning promotes attention and prevents mind-wandering.

He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.

John and Judas became the good and evil Wandering Jews of mediæval folklore.

He was relieved to learn that his grandson Moses Mole was not wandering about the garden, after all.

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Meaning of wandering in English

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wander verb ( MOVE AROUND )

• walk The baby has just learned to walk.
• stride She strode purposefully up to the desk and demanded to speak to the manager.
• march He marched right in to the office and demanded to see the governor.
• stroll We strolled along the beach.
• wander She wandered from room to room, not sure of what she was looking for.
• amble She ambled down the street, looking in shop windows.
• crawl There'd been a bad accident on the motorway and traffic was crawling.
• trundle Lorries trundle through the narrow lanes.
• creep He crept downstairs, hardly making any noise.
• trudge They trudged wearily through the snow.
• stroll We spent the afternoon strolling around Budapest.
• amble He ambled over to the window.
• Don't worry if you lose hold of the reins - the horse won't wander off.
• He wandered around, clearing up in a desultory way.
• We wandered along the shore , stepping over the flotsam that had washed up in the night .
• We wandered through the beautifully proportioned rooms of the Winter Palace.
• She was wandering around in a daze this morning .
• His eyes wandered over the posters adorning the walls .
• dumbwalking

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wander verb ( SUBJECT )

• bury the lede idiom
• candy coating
• candy-coated
• circumlocution
• circumlocutory
• get on to/onto something
• gloss over something
• go off on a tangent idiom
• prevaricate
• tiptoe around something/someone
• unexpressed

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Thesaurus Definition of wanders

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Synonyms & Similar Words

• knocks (about)
• gads (about)
• kicks around
• mills (about or around)
• transgresses
• falls from grace
• breaks the law

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Thesaurus Definition of wanders  (Entry 2 of 2)

• perambulations
• constitutionals
• peregrinations
• expeditions
• pilgrimages

Thesaurus Entries Near wanders

wander (into)

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