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Nouns (1)

drifting

n. aimless wandering from place to place

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Adjectives (5)

aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant

adj. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

Fuzzynyms (1)

itinerant

adj. traveling from place to place to work; "itinerant labor"; "an itinerant judge"

Synonyms (17)

erratic, planetary, wandering

adj. having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"

homeless, stateless

adj. without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"

migrant, migratory

adj. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers"

mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering

adj. migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"

peripatetic, wayfaring

adj. traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger"

rootless, vagabond

adj. wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer"

unlocated

adj. lacking a particular location

Antonyms (1)

settled

adj. established in a desired position or place; not moving about; "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization"

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