Wandering

//ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·Common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Travelling without preset route; roaming.
  2. 2
    travelling about without any clear destination wordnet
  3. 3
    Irregular turning of the eyes.
  4. 4
    Aimless thought.
  5. 5
    Straying from a desired path.
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  1. 6
    Disordered speech or delirium. in-plural
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of wander form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Which wanders; travelling from place to place. not-comparable

    "This was the time when Venerable Master Hsing Yun first arrived in Taiwan as a wandering monk and was refused lodgings. He was nearly reduced to begging on the street. Fortunately, the old Venerable Miaoguo of Yuanguang Temple in Chungli took him in."

  2. 2
    Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions. not-comparable

    "a wandering kidney; a wandering liver"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of a path e.g. wordnet
  2. 2
    having no fixed course wordnet
  3. 3
    migratory wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
meanderingnomadicplanetaryaberrancyaberrantaberration

Example

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"The boy was wandering about the town."

Etymology

From wander + -ing.

Related phrases

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