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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Alexis karpouzos:

   Treasures come in so many ways: The sun that lights the cloudy days, a rose that blooms within an hour. a baby that staring with a wandering gaze, a dolphin’s dance on ocean waves, a sky full of snowflakes of rarest form, a beautiful white and peaceful dove.

4. New York-based:

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

5. Graham Greene:

   Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.