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Antonyms for wandering
ˈwɒn dər ɪŋwan·der·ing

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wandering

    Synonyms:
    roving, vagrant, rambling, strolling, discursive

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. wandering, roving, vagabondageadjective

    travelling about without any clear destination

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

    Antonyms:
    settled, direct

    Synonyms:
    roving, vagabondage

  2. mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wanderingadjective

    migratory

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

    Antonyms:
    settled, direct

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

  3. meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), windingadjective

    of a path e.g.

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

    Antonyms:
    settled, direct

  4. erratic, planetary, wanderingadjective

    having no fixed course

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

    Antonyms:
    direct, settled

    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

How to use wandering in a sentence?

  1. Jim Wayne:

    He was found wandering around a luxury apartment complex downtown Los Angeles.

  2. Keri Gans:

    If you're someone who works from home and you find yourself wandering into the kitchen too many times, or if you keep visiting an office kitchen that's packed with snacks, here chewing a piece of gum may help, it's putting something in your mouth, it's keeping it busy, it has this great flavor in it, and you might be less likely to reach for food... or that piece of chocolate on your co-worker's desk.

  3. Manfred Weber:

    There will have to be more fences, it simply can't be that refugees in their hundreds of thousands are wandering uncontrolled through Europe.

  4. 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.

  5. New York-based:

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

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