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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. Jeff Yang:

    We're all hoping that this works, because 20 years of wandering in the wilderness is damn well enough.

  2. 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.

  3. Lin Sternlicht:

    An important technique to stop the stress response is to ground yourself in the present moment.Stress is often triggered by experiences that are not occurring in the moment, often stemming from past or future events and mind wandering, as such, grounding oneself is an effective technique to relieve stress. There are many techniques to ground yourself in the present moment, and the more you practice them the easier and more natural it will become.

  4. Bern Williams:

    Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

  5. 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.

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