wandering
moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: Crowds of wandering tourists crossed the square.
having no permanent residence; nomadic: They were historically a wandering people, moving seasonally through the area.
meandering; winding: They followed a wandering path down the mountain.
an aimless roving about; leisurely traveling from place to place: For our honeymoon we had a period of delightful wandering through Italy.
Usually wan·der·ings.
aimless travels; meanderings: Her wanderings took her all over the world.
disordered thoughts or utterances; incoherencies: mental wanderings;the wanderings of delirium.
seemingly aimless or random movement from one place to another by a person with a mental or cognitive disability or impairment: Wandering by Alzheimer’s patients is a problem in nursing homes.: See also elopement (def. 2).
Origin of wandering
1Other words from wandering
- wan·der·ing·ly, adverb
- wan·der·ing·ness, noun
- un·wan·der·ing, adjective
- un·wan·der·ing·ly, adverb
Words Nearby wandering
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How to use wandering in a sentence
Later, information emerged that this sea lion is known for its wanderings.
Politics Report: Who Will Replace Lorena Gonzalez? | Andrew Keatts and Scott Lewis | January 8, 2022 | Voice of San DiegoThis is counter-intuitive because spontaneous fluctuations and mind-wandering can also lead to depressive rumination and anxiety.
Why Making Our Brains Noisier Feels Good - Issue 96: Rewired | Thomas Nail | February 17, 2021 | NautilusSimilar to playing and dreaming is the wandering of our minds.
When psychologists do that, they find that mind-wandering is staggeringly frequent.
Mind-wandering is often considered a harmless quirk, as in the cliché of the scatter-brained professor.
Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech | Liza Foreman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.
After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.
He showed signs of a restless, wandering soul, someone searching for meaning around him.
Bergdahl’s Bitter Homecoming: The Psychological Cost of War | Jean Kim | July 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI spotted American students wandering around London last week dressed in Stars and Stripes shorts and bikini tops.
Home of the (Footballing) Brave: The U.S. Bested Britain in World Cup Spirit | Emma Woolf | July 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe observed his pale looks, and the distracted wandering of his eyes; but she would not notice either.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterThis mode of learning promotes attention and prevents mind-wandering.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniJohn and Judas became the good and evil wandering Jews of mediæval folklore.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayHe was relieved to learn that his grandson Moses Mole was not wandering about the garden, after all.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott Bailey
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