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vagrant

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of vagrant

traveling from place to place

  • bands of vagrant children in the streets of the impoverished city
Synonyms of vagrant

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

drifting, footloose, meandering, rambling

sauntering, strolling, traipsing, walking

migrant, migratory
Phrases Synonymous with vagrant

on the move
Near Antonyms of vagrant

immobile, nonmoving, settled, standing, static, stationary

motionless, still

vagrant

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of vagrant

1 a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living

  • vagrants sleeping in cardboard boxes on the sidewalk
Synonyms of vagrant

bindle stiff, bum, bummer, hobo, sundowner [Australian], swaggie [chiefly Australian], swagman [chiefly Australian], tramp, vagabond
Words Related to vagrant

drifter, roamer, transient

beggar, derelict, mendicant, panhandler, stiff

dodger, malingerer, shirker, slacker

gamine, ragamuffin, urchin, waif

2 an idle worthless person

  • the vagrants who are a familiar sight at the city's bus terminal
Synonyms of vagrant

bum, derelict, do-nothing, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, no-account, no-good, no-goodnik, slacker
Words Related to vagrant

hobo, sundowner [Australian], tramp, vagabond

drifter, roamer, transient

beggar, panhandler

dodger, goldbrick, shirker

gamine, ragamuffin, urchin, waif

drone, idler, lazybones, loafer, slouch, slug, sluggard

down-and-out (or down-and-outer), indigent, pauper
Near Antonyms of vagrant

success, winner

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