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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How to use wandering in a sentence?

1. Mark Cohen:

   The retailers who were wandering around aimlessly pre-pandemic are going to be substantially less likely to muddle through than they were before.

2. Jim Berrian:

   The first evidence we found of this species was a shed exoskeleton in the cracks of a rock overhang, the exoskeleton was abnormally big and I could tell by the eye pattern that it was in a group of spiders, wandering spiders from the Family Ctenidae, with very few species in Baja California Sur.

3. Amishi Jha:

   It's the antidote to mind wandering, it's paying attention to our present moment experience without editorializing or reacting to it.

4. 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!

5. Keith Mitchell:

   I was trying to focus on what was going on, my mind started wandering there a little bit at the end ... and then I hit a great putt.