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adj. used of animals that move seasonally; "migratory birds"

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

itinerant

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

ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious

adj. lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary

adj. lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

passing

adj. allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"

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"

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"

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

nonmigratory, resident

adj. used of animals that do not migrate

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