Entry Word: migratory

Function: adjective

Meaning: having a way of life that involves moving from one region to another typically on a seasonal basis <most of the apple crop is picked by migratory workers> <migratory birds heading south for the winter>

Synonyms migrant, mobile

Related Words errant, itinerant, nomadic, peripatetic, ranging, roaming, roving, traveling (or travelling), vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring; ambulatory, drifting, footloose, gallivanting (also galavanting), lingering, meandering, rambling, sauntering, strolling, traipsing, walking

Near Antonyms immobile, stationary; established, fast, fixed, rooted, set, settled

Antonyms nonmigratory, resident