Thesaurus
wandering
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms 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
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
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