Synonyms for wandering
ˈwɒn dər ɪŋwan·der·ing

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1. wandering

   Synonyms:
   roving, vagrant, rambling, strolling, discursive

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1. wandering, roving, vagabondageadjective

   travelling about without any clear destination

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

   Synonyms:
   roving, vagabondage

   Antonyms:
   settled, direct

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   settled, direct

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"

   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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1. wanderingnoun

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

2. wanderingnoun

   Synonyms:
   aberration, deviation from rectitude

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1. wanderingadjective

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

2. wanderingnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "wandering":

   stray, curfew, roaming

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1. 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.

2. John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998:

   Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Addison Del Mastro:

   I don’t know if you’d be able to identify what they were if they had a different name on the front, there’s nothing to engage the wandering imagination.