Synonyms of errant

errant

adjective

ˈer-ənt 

1

as in mischievous

engaging in or marked by childish misbehavior

blamed the prank on errant students

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mischievous
• naughty
• bad
• rude
• rebellious
• contrary
• selfish
• childish
• misbehaving
• froward
• wayward
• improper
• wild
• wicked
• immature
• defiant
• impudent
• recalcitrant
• uncontrollable
• disrespectful
• unruly
• disobedient
• juvenile
• insolent
• obstreperous
• uncouth
• balky
• indecorous
• corrupt
• refractory
• rascally
• willful
• impish
• intractable
• unmannerly
• ornery
• roguish
• prankish
• impolite
• untoward
• dissolute
• headstrong
• waggish
• evil
• wrongheaded
• knavish
• ungovernable
• ill-mannered
• rowdy
• disorderly
• restive
• elfish
• mutinous
• perverse
• thoughtless
• monkeying
• ruffianly
• ill-natured
• unkind
• inconsiderate
• insurgent
• arch
• transgressing
• infantile
• pixieish
• unkindly
• monkeyish
• puerile
• jejune
• babyish
• disobliging
• kiddish

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• correct
• proper
• orderly
• dutiful
• moral
• behaved
• nice
• obedient
• compliant
• clean
• decent
• divine
• respectable
• acquiescent
• complying
• thoughtful
• submissive
• kindly
• courteous
• decorous
• polite
• heavenly
• angelic
• considerate
• amenable
• behaving
• docile
• pleasant
• amiable
• tractable
• modest
• good-natured
• complaisant
• discreet
• cherubic
• mature
• adult
• mannerly
• obliging
• governable
• grown-up

2

as in nomadic

traveling from place to place

the errant gunslinger as a standard character in western novels

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nomadic
• nomad
• peregrine
• itinerant
• peripatetic
• roving
• roaming
• wandering
• migrant
• vagrant
• ranging
• ambulatory
• wayfaring
• on the move
• fugitive
• ambulant
• vagabond
• perambulatory
• migratory
• gallivanting
• walking
• drifting
• footloose
• meandering
• rambling
• sauntering
• traipsing
• strolling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• static
• stationary
• standing
• settled
• immobile
• still
• nonmoving
• motionless

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of errant

Hamas officials blamed Israel for the hospital deaths, while Israel attributed the blast to a failed, errant rocket launched from within Gaza by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. — Asra Q. Nomani, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Given that the United States keeps getting mired in errant conflicts, Congress urgently needs to reassert its constitutional obligation to approve acts of war and oversee retrenchment. — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026

Even in her more overtly political writing, Seghers retains that errant fairy-tale tone. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

The errant f-bomb took place during a Green Eggs and Ham sketch. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2026

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