What is another word for wandering?
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Pronunciation:
[ wˈɒndəɹɪŋ], [ wˈɒndəɹɪŋ], [ w_ˈɒ_n_d_ə_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ]
When you hear the word "wandering," the image of someone aimlessly walking around might come to mind. However, there are many other words that can be used to describe this type of behavior. For example, "roaming" suggests a sense of exploration or search, while "rambling" can imply a long, meandering journey. "Drifting" suggests a lack of direction or purpose, while "strolling" may connote a leisurely, enjoyable walk. "Hiking" suggests a longer, more challenging journey through nature while "wandering" may suggest a more casual aimless approach. By using different synonyms for "wandering," you can add variety and nuance to your descriptions of movement and exploration.
Related words: wandering through, wander, wandering aimless, travelling, get lost, lost
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Similar words for wandering:
- astray (adjective)
- deflected (adjective)
- discursive (adjective)
- errant (adjective)
- fugitive (adjective)
- inattentive (adjective)
- incoherent (adjective)
- itinerant (adjective)
- lost (adjective)
- mobile (adjective)
- motiveless (adjective)
- tramping (adjective)
- traveling (adjective)
- wandering (adjective)
- wordy (adjective)
- aimless (adjective)
- delirious (adjective)
- deviant (adjective)
- devious (adjective)
- disconnected (adjective)
- episodic (adjective)
- hiking (adjective)
- homeless (adjective)
- indirect (adjective)
- labyrinthine (adjective)
- meandering (adjective)
- migrant/migratory (adjective)
- planetary (adjective)
- restless (adjective)
- roaming (adjective)
- roving (adjective)
- transmigratory (adjective)
- transportable (adjective)
- unquiet (adjective)
- vagabond (adjective)
- walking (adjective)
- wayfaring (adjective)
- departure (noun)
- digression (noun)
- emigration (noun)
- excursion (noun)
- irrelevancy (noun)
- journey (noun)
- movement (noun)
- route (noun)
- roving (noun)
- travel (noun)
- deflecting (verb)
- deviating (verb)
- wandering (verb)
- away
- deviation
- itinerant
- mobile
- nomadic
- noun
- sleepwalking
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Wandering:
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adj.
• astray • deflected • discursive • errant • fugitive • inattentive- Absent-minded ,
- Disregardful ,
- Ignoring ,
- absent ,
- aloof ,
- befuddled ,
- detached ,
- disinterested ,
- distracted ,
- dreamy ,
- faraway ,
- heedless ,
- inadvertent ,
- inattentive ,
- napping ,
- negligent ,
- oblivious ,
- preoccupied ,
- thoughtless ,
- unconcerned ,
- unconscious ,
- unheedful ,
- uninterested ,
- unmindful .
- at sea ,
- cast away ,
- fallen between cracks ,
- gone astray ,
- irrecoverable ,
- irretrievable ,
- kiss goodbye ,
- nowhere to be found ,
- out the window ,
- unredeemed .
- Flitting ,
- Systemless ,
- adrift ,
- ambivalent ,
- arbitrary ,
- capricious ,
- careless ,
- chancy ,
- fanciful ,
- fickle ,
- fleeting ,
- flighty ,
- haphazard ,
- impulsive ,
- indecisive ,
- irregular ,
- motiveless ,
- nonsystematic ,
- rambling ,
- random ,
- reasonless ,
- spastic ,
- sporadic ,
- unmethodical ,
- volatile ,
- wayward ,
- whimsical .
- Ambling ,
- Sojourning ,
- Strolling ,
- Trekking ,
- coursing ,
- journeying ,
- marching ,
- moving ,
- roving ,
- touring ,
- walking .
- bombastic ,
- chatty ,
- endless ,
- excessive ,
- featherbedding ,
- grandiloquent ,
- lengthy ,
- long-winded ,
- loquacious ,
- ponderous ,
- superfluous ,
- talkative ,
- verbose ,
- windy ,
- wordy .
- fits starts ,
- in decisive ,
- in discriminate ,
- in-decisive ,
- in-discriminate ,
- more bits and pieces ,
- more bits-and-pieces ,
- more directionless ,
- more drifting ,
- more goalless ,
- more objectless ,
- more undirected ,
- more unguided ,
- more vagrant ,
- most bits and pieces ,
- most bits-and-pieces ,
- most directionless ,
- most drifting ,
- most goalless ,
- most objectless ,
- most undirected ,
- most unguided ,
- most vagrant ,
- un availing ,
- un directed ,
- un guided ,
- un planned ,
- un predictable ,
- un-availing ,
- un-directed ,
- un-guided ,
- un-planned ,
- un-predictable .
- be wildered ,
- be-wildered ,
- de ranged ,
- de-ranged ,
- dis arranged ,
- dis ordered ,
- dis-arranged ,
- dis-ordered ,
- in sane ,
- in saner ,
- in sanest ,
- in-sane ,
- in-saner ,
- in-sanest ,
- more deviate ,
- more disarranged ,
- more flipped ,
- more maniac ,
- more maniacal ,
- most deviate ,
- most disarranged ,
- most flipped ,
- most maniac ,
- most manic ,
- off head ,
- off one head ,
- off ones head ,
- out head ,
- out of one head ,
- out of one skull ,
- out of ones head ,
- out of ones skull ,
- out of skull ,
- out one head ,
- out one skull ,
- out one's head ,
- out one's skull ,
- out ones head ,
- out ones skull ,
- out skull ,
- un hinged ,
- un reasonable ,
- un settled ,
- un-hinged ,
- un-reasonable ,
- un-settled .
- hetero clite ,
- hetero-clite ,
- more heteroclite ,
- more unrepresentative ,
- most heteroclite ,
- most unrepresentative ,
- off key ,
- offkey ,
- un orthodox ,
- un representative ,
- un typical ,
- un-orthodox ,
- un-representative ,
- un-typical .
- de touring ,
- de-touring ,
- ex cursive ,
- ex-cursive ,
- mis leading ,
- mis-leading ,
- more confounding ,
- more detouring ,
- more digressing ,
- more digressory ,
- more twisting ,
- most confounding ,
- most detouring ,
- most digressing ,
- most digressory ,
- most twisting ,
- re moved ,
- re-mote .
- dis connected ,
- dis jointed ,
- dis-connected ,
- dis-jointed ,
- in choate ,
- in cohesive ,
- in-choate ,
- in-cohesive ,
- mixedup ,
- more garbled ,
- more incohesive ,
- more uncontinuous ,
- most garbled ,
- most incohesive ,
- most uncontinuous ,
- un continuous ,
- un coordinated ,
- un intelligible ,
- un-continuous ,
- un-coordinated ,
- un-intelligible .
- more backpacking ,
- more exploring ,
- more hitchhiking ,
- most backpacking ,
- most exploring ,
- most hitchhiking .
- de ported ,
- de relict ,
- de solate ,
- de-ported ,
- de-relict ,
- de-solate ,
- dis inherited ,
- dis placed ,
- dis possessed ,
- dis-inherited ,
- dis-placed ,
- dis-possessed ,
- more banished ,
- more deported ,
- more disinherited ,
- more dispossessed ,
- more estranged ,
- more exiled ,
- more houseless ,
- more outcast ,
- more refugee ,
- more uncared for ,
- more uncared-for ,
- more uncaredfor ,
- more unhoused ,
- most banished ,
- most deported ,
- most disinherited ,
- most dispossessed ,
- most estranged ,
- most exiled ,
- most houseless ,
- most outcast ,
- most refugee ,
- most uncared for ,
- most uncared-for ,
- most uncaredfor ,
- most unhoused ,
- out cast ,
- out-cast ,
- un housed ,
- un welcome ,
- un-housed ,
- un-welcome ,
- uncaredfor ,
- without roof .
- in direct ,
- in-direct ,
- long drawn out ,
- more circumlocutory ,
- more sidelong ,
- more snaking ,
- most circumlocutory ,
- most sidelong ,
- most snaking ,
- under hand ,
- under-hand .
- more emigrating ,
- more immigrant ,
- more immigrating ,
- more migrative ,
- more migratorial ,
- more nomad ,
- more seasonal ,
- most emigrating ,
- most immigrant ,
- most immigrating ,
- most migrative ,
- most migratorial ,
- most nomad ,
- most seasonal ,
- on move ,
- trampest .
- bundle nerves ,
- ill ease ,
- in-constant ,
- more bustling ,
- more fidgeting ,
- more unpeaceful ,
- more unrestful ,
- most bustling ,
- most fidgeting ,
- most unpeaceful ,
- most unrestful ,
- tossing turning ,
- un easier ,
- un easiest ,
- un easy ,
- un peaceful ,
- un restful ,
- un-easier ,
- un-easiest ,
- un-peaceful ,
- un-restful .
- fancy free ,
- fancyfree ,
- fly by night ,
- more mendicant ,
- more rootless ,
- more sauntering ,
- more straggling ,
- more strolling ,
- most mendicant ,
- most rootless ,
- most sauntering ,
- most straggling ,
- most strolling .
- jet setting ,
- jetsetting ,
- more gadabout ,
- more globe trotting ,
- more globe-trotting ,
- more globetrotting ,
- more jet setting ,
- more jet-setting ,
- more jetsetting ,
- more rubbernecking ,
- more voyaging ,
- most gadabout ,
- most globe trotting ,
- most globe-trotting ,
- most globetrotting ,
- most jet setting ,
- most jet-setting ,
- most jetsetting ,
- most rubbernecking ,
- most voyaging .
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n.
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- idle .
-
•
- incongruous .
-
•
- purpose .
- ex patriation ,
- ex patriations ,
- ex-patriation ,
- ex-patriations ,
- homesteadings ,
- re establishment ,
- re establishments ,
- re location ,
- re locations ,
- re settlement ,
- re settlements ,
- re-establishments ,
- re-location ,
- re-locations ,
- re-settlement ,
- re-settlements ,
- reestablishments ,
- up rooting ,
- up-rooting ,
- uprootings .
- roamings ,
- trans migration ,
- trans migrations ,
- trans-migration ,
- trans-migrations ,
- travelings ,
- vagabondages ,
- wayfarings .
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v.
• deflecting • deviating • wandering Other synonyms:
- emigration ,
- lost ,
- movement ,
- peripatetic ,
- travel ,
- vagrant .
- restless .
- devious .
Other relevant words:
- Abnormous ,
- Anomalistic ,
- Beach comber ,
- Booly ,
- Bumming ,
- Careening ,
- Circumambient ,
- Circumforaneous ,
- Deceiving ,
- Deluded ,
- Demency ,
- Dementation ,
- Desultoriness ,
- Deviatory ,
- Digressional ,
- Discursion ,
- Errantry ,
- Evagation ,
- Gadding ,
- Gadling ,
- Heteroclite ,
- Heteromorphic ,
- Hovering ,
- Immethodical ,
- Intermitting ,
- Involuted ,
- Itineracy ,
- Itinerancy ,
- Landloper ,
- Nomadism ,
- Non compos ,
- Orderless ,
- Out of keeping ,
- Peregrinator ,
- Pererration ,
- Phrensy ,
- Sauntering ,
- Scatterling ,
- Spasmatic ,
- Strayed ,
- Swagman ,
- Swagsman ,
- Threading ,
- Transmigratory ,
- Trudging ,
- Twining ,
- Unarranged ,
- Undulating ,
- Unjoined ,
- Unstaid ,
- Unsteadfast ,
- Vagabondism ,
- Vicissitudinary ,
- Vicissitudinous ,
- Wreathing ,
- Zingaro ,
- abandoned ,
- aberrancy ,
- aberrant ,
- aberrative ,
- abnormal ,
- adventurer ,
- afebrile delirium ,
- afloat ,
- afoot and lighthearted ,
- aimless ,
- aimlessness ,
- alternating ,
- ambagious ,
- ambiguous ,
- ambulant ,
- amorphous ,
- anfractuous ,
- anomalous ,
- astray ,
- babbling ,
- backpacker ,
- bamboozle ,
- be lost ,
- bend ,
- bent ,
- bereft of reason ,
- berserk ,
- betray ,
- betraying ,
- bias ,
- bird of passage ,
- bootless ,
- brainsick ,
- brainstorm ,
- branching off ,
- broken ,
- by the way ,
- byroad ,
- casual ,
- catchy ,
- changeable ,
- changeful ,
- cheat ,
- choppy ,
- circuitous ,
- circuitousness ,
- circumlocutory ,
- circumvent ,
- continue ,
- convoluted ,
- corner ,
- crackbrained ,
- cracked ,
- crazed ,
- crazy ,
- crook ,
- crooked ,
- cuckolding ,
- curled ,
- curling ,
- curve ,
- curved ,
- curvilinear ,
- curving ,
- curvy ,
- daft ,
- deceive ,
- declination ,
- defraud ,
- delirious ,
- deliriousness ,
- delirium ,
- delude ,
- delusion ,
- delusional ,
- demented ,
- dementia ,
- departure ,
- deranged ,
- derelict ,
- desultory ,
- detour ,
- deviance ,
- deviancy ,
- deviant ,
- deviation ,
- deviative ,
- deviousness ,
- different ,
- diffuse ,
- digress ,
- digressionary ,
- digressive ,
- directionless ,
- disarticulated ,
- disconnected ,
- discontinuous ,
- discursive ,
- discursiveness ,
- disjunct ,
- disordered ,
- disorganized ,
- disoriented ,
- dispersed ,
- disproportionate ,
- distrait ,
- distraught ,
- divagating ,
- divagation ,
- divarication ,
- divergence ,
- diversion ,
- dizzy ,
- dogleg ,
- doting ,
- double ,
- drift ,
- drool ,
- eccentric ,
- egregious ,
- emigrant ,
- empty ,
- episodic ,
- err ,
- erratic ,
- erring ,
- error ,
- exceptional ,
- exclusive ,
- excursion ,
- excursionist ,
- excursive ,
- expedition ,
- explorer ,
- falsity ,
- fault ,
- fitful ,
- flexuous ,
- flickering ,
- floating ,
- fluctuating ,
- fluid ,
- flying ,
- footloose ,
- footloose and fancy-free ,
- foreignness ,
- formless ,
- foundling ,
- frantic ,
- freakish ,
- frenzy ,
- frivolous ,
- fugitive ,
- funny ,
- furor ,
- gadabout ,
- gallivant ,
- gallivanting ,
- giddy ,
- globetrotter ,
- go ,
- gratuitous ,
- guttering ,
- gypsy ,
- hairpin ,
- hallucinated ,
- hallucination ,
- hallucinatory ,
- halting ,
- herky-jerky ,
- hiker ,
- hit-or-miss ,
- hobo ,
- homeless ,
- hover ,
- immigration ,
- impetuous ,
- in limbo ,
- inaccuracy ,
- inchoate ,
- incoherence ,
- incoherent ,
- inconsistent ,
- inconstant ,
- indefinite ,
- indirect ,
- indirection ,
- indiscriminate ,
- infirm ,
- informal ,
- iniquity ,
- insane ,
- insanity ,
- intermittent ,
- irrational ,
- irrelevancy ,
- irresolute ,
- irresponsible ,
- itinerant ,
- jerky ,
- journey ,
- labyrinthine ,
- landloping ,
- lawless ,
- lightheaded ,
- loafer ,
- loco ,
- loose ,
- lunacy ,
- lunatic ,
- lurching ,
- lycanthropy ,
- mad ,
- maddened ,
- madness ,
- mania ,
- maniacal ,
- manic ,
- maundering ,
- maze-like ,
- mazed ,
- mazy ,
- meandering ,
- meaningless ,
- mental ,
- mental alienation ,
- mentally deficient ,
- mercurial ,
- meshuggah ,
- migrant ,
- migrational ,
- misplaced ,
- misshapen ,
- moody ,
- moonstruck ,
- mountaineer ,
- move ,
- noctambulist ,
- nomad ,
- non compos mentis ,
- nonsymmetrical ,
- nonuniform ,
- not all there ,
- not right ,
- oblique ,
- obliquity ,
- odd ,
- of unsound mind ,
- off ,
- on the bum ,
- originate ,
- out of order ,
- out of place ,
- out-of-the-way ,
- palmer ,
- paranoia ,
- parenthesis ,
- pass ,
- patchy ,
- peculiar ,
- perambulatory ,
- peregrinating ,
- peregrination ,
- peregrine ,
- periphrastic ,
- phrenitis ,
- pilgrim ,
- planetary ,
- planless ,
- plodding ,
- pointless ,
- pound the pavement ,
- proceed ,
- prolix ,
- prolong ,
- promiscuous ,
- psycho ,
- purposeless ,
- queer ,
- rabies ,
- ramble ,
- ramble on ,
- rambler ,
- ranging ,
- ranting ,
- raving ,
- refugee ,
- remain ,
- roam ,
- rough ,
- roundabout ,
- route ,
- rove ,
- rover ,
- run ,
- runabout ,
- scatterbrained ,
- schizophrenia ,
- scrappy ,
- senseless ,
- serpentine ,
- shapeless ,
- sheer ,
- shift ,
- shifty ,
- shuffling ,
- sick ,
- sinuous ,
- skew ,
- slant ,
- slogging ,
- snaky ,
- snatchy ,
- somnambulist ,
- spasmodic ,
- spineless ,
- spotty ,
- sprawling ,
- staggering ,
- stark raving mad ,
- straggler ,
- straggling ,
- straggly ,
- strange ,
- straphanger ,
- stray ,
- subnormal ,
- sustain ,
- sweep ,
- swerve ,
- swerving ,
- swinging ,
- tack ,
- temperamental ,
- teratogenic ,
- tetched ,
- tortuous ,
- touched ,
- tour ,
- tourist ,
- trailing ,
- traipsing ,
- tramp ,
- tramper ,
- tramping ,
- transient ,
- transitory ,
- travelling ,
- trecker ,
- trek ,
- trekker ,
- trip ,
- turn ,
- turning ,
- twist ,
- twisted ,
- twisting ,
- twisty ,
- unaccountable ,
- unauthenticated ,
- unbalanced ,
- uncertain ,
- unclassified ,
- uncontrolled ,
- undependable ,
- undetermined ,
- undirected ,
- undisciplined ,
- unequal ,
- uneven ,
- unfixed ,
- ungraded ,
- unhinged ,
- unnatural ,
- unordered ,
- unorganized ,
- unpredictable ,
- unquiet ,
- unreliable ,
- unrestrained ,
- unrhythmical ,
- unsettled ,
- unsorted ,
- unsound ,
- unstable ,
- unsteady ,
- unsymmetrical ,
- unsystematic ,
- vacillating ,
- vacuous ,
- vagabondage ,
- vagrancy ,
- vague ,
- variable ,
- variation ,
- veer ,
- vomiting ,
- walk about ,
- wander ,
- wander about ,
- wanderer ,
- wanderlust ,
- wanton ,
- warp ,
- wastrel ,
- wavering ,
- wavery ,
- waving ,
- wavy ,
- wheeling ,
- wild ,
- wild-eyed ,
- winding ,
- wishy-washy ,
- witless ,
- wobbling ,
- wobbly ,
- worldwide ,
- wrapping ,
- yaw ,
- zigzag .
- Houseless ,
- Objectless ,
- Promenading ,
- Roaming ,
- Snaking ,
- Unhoused ,
- Vagarious ,
- backpacking ,
- bits and pieces ,
- bits-and-pieces ,
- bundle of nerves ,
- detouring ,
- digressory ,
- down and out ,
- fits and starts ,
- goalless ,
- incohesive ,
- itinerate ,
- jet-setting ,
- long way home ,
- migrative ,
- migratorial ,
- off one's head ,
- on the move ,
- out of head ,
- out of one's head ,
- passing through ,
- picaresque ,
- rootless ,
- seasonal ,
- sidelong ,
- strung out ,
- tossing and turning ,
- traveling ,
- uncared for ,
- uncontinuous ,
- unguided ,
- unpeaceful ,
- unrepresentative ,
- unrestful ,
- without a roof ,
- Flipped ,
- Pasturing ,
- Strutting ,
- adulterous ,
- heretical ,
- illogical ,
- implied ,
- occasional ,
- out of one's skull ,
- perambulant ,
- segmented ,
- straying ,
- uncared-for ,
- unfaithful ,
- unwelcome ,
- worldly .
- Movements ,
- Reestablishment ,
- Voyaging ,
- airings ,
- apostrophe ,
- apostrophes ,
- by-way ,
- byway ,
- byways ,
- changings ,
- day trip ,
- discursions ,
- dynamism ,
- evolution ,
- homesteading ,
- journeyings ,
- locomotion ,
- meanderings ,
- motilities ,
- motility ,
- movableness ,
- movings ,
- operativeness ,
- pike ,
- pilgrimage ,
- pleasure trip ,
- pleasure trips ,
- re-establishment ,
- resettlement ,
- resettlements ,
- settlings ,
- shiftings ,
- short cut ,
- stirrings ,
- voyage ,
- voyagings ,
- wanderings .
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How to use "Wandering" in context?
In our lives, we are constantly on the go. Whether it's to work or to run an errand, we are constantly rushing around. But what happens when our lives slow down a bit? When we're not constantly on the go, do we simply...wander? For some, wandering is a way to take a break from their daily routine and explore their surroundings. For others, it can be a way to find a new destination. Regardless of why someone wanders, the outcome is the same: relaxation and fresh scenery. Here are five tips for walking and exploring when your life barrels along at a steady pace.
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