Synonyms for nomadic
noʊˈmæd ɪkno·madic

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1. 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"

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

   Antonyms:
   settled

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1. nomadicadjective

   Synonyms:
   wandering, migratory, vagrant, roving, strolling

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1. nomadicadjective

   Synonyms:
   wandering, nomad

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1. List of paraphrases for "nomadic":

   nomads, nomad, traveller, bedouin, itinerant, travellers

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How to use nomadic in a sentence?

1. Joel Gascoigne:

   It’s totally open. We don’t have any concentration of roles in one place. Some of us are quite nomadic.

2. Danny Bucher:

   As a general rule they're nomadic, but if there's a reliable supply of food, they'll hang around while that food lasts.

3. Phillip Barden:

   Hell ants have two features found in no living species : highly specialized scythe-like mandibles and a wide diversity of horns that are present on what is essentially the forehead, one reason these fossils are compelling is that, today, we have about 15,000 known species of ants with all kinds of adaptations, from agricultural leaf-cutter ants with scissor-like mouthparts to army ants specialized as nomadic predatory raiders.