wandering

wandering

adjective

Definition of WANDERING

1

passing from one topic to another <your decidedly wandering essay loses its punch—stick to one theme>

Synonyms desultory, digressional, digressionary, digressive, excursive, leaping, maundering, meandering, rambling, wandering

Related Words circuitous, deviating, devious, indirect, roundabout

Near Antonyms coherent, consistent, logical; direct, focused (also focussed), straightforward, undeviating

2

traveling from place to place <a wandering carnival that visited small towns all over the South>

Synonyms ambulant, ambulatory, errant, fugitive, gallivanting (also galavanting), nomad, nomadic, perambulatory, peregrine, peripatetic, ranging, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring

Related Words drifting, footloose, meandering, rambling; sauntering, strolling, traipsing, walking; migrant, migratory

Near Antonyms immobile, nonmoving, settled, standing, static, stationary; motionless, still