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Adjective wandering has 3 senses
- mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering - (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
Antonym: settled (indirect, via unsettled)
- meandering, rambling, wandering, winding - of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"
Antonym: direct (indirect, via indirect)
- erratic, planetary, wandering - having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"
Antonym: settled (indirect, via unsettled)
Noun wandering has 1 sense
- wandering, roving, vagabondage - travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
--1 is a kind of peregrination
--1 has particulars: drifting
Verb wander has 5 senses
- roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
They wander the countryside
They wander in the countryside
- cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander - be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
--2 is one way to deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
=> Somebody ----s
- wander - go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"
--3 is one way to proceed, go forward, continue
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- weave, wind, thread, meander, wander - to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
--4 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- digress, stray, divagate, wander - lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture"
--5 is one way to tell
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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