vagrant

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: va=grant

CIDE DICTIONARY

vagrant, a. [Probably fr. OF. waucrant, wacrant, p. p. of waucrer, wacrer, walcrer, to wander (probably of Teutonic origin), but influenced by F. vagant, p. pr. of vaguer to stray, L. vagari. Cf. Vagary.].

•  Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.  [1913 Webster]

  "That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took."  [1913 Webster]

  "While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love."  [1913 Webster]
•  Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.  [1913 Webster]

vagrant, n. 

 One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.  [1913 Webster]
"Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vagrant, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a person without a settled home or regular work.
2 a wanderer or vagabond.
--adj.
1 wandering or roving (a vagrant musician).
2 being a vagrant.

Derivative

vagrancy n. vagrantly adv.

Etymology

ME f. AF vag(a)raunt, perh. alt. f. AF wakerant etc. by assoc. with L vagari wander

THESAURUS

vagrant

Arab, Bowery bum, aberrant, aberrative, adrift, afloat, aimless, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, capricious, changeable, changeful, circuitous, circumforaneous, cranky, crotchety, departing, derelict, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devil, devious, digressive, discursive, divagatory, dizzy, dogie, drifter, drifting, drunkard, eccentric, errant, erratic, excursive, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, floating, fluctuating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, freakish, fugitive, gadding, gamin, gamine, giddy, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, gypsy-like, gypsyish, harebrained, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, humorsome, idler, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indirect, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kinky, labyrinthine, landloper, landloping, lazzarone, loafer, losel, lowlife, maggoty, mauvais sujet, mazy, mean wretch, meandering, mercurial, migrational, migratory, moody, motiveless, mucker, mudlark, no-good, nomad, nomadic, notional, out-of-the-way, pauvre diable, perambulatory, peripatetic, petulant, piker, pilgarlic, planetary, poor creature, poor devil, quirky, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rambling, ranging, restless, roaming, rounder, roving, sad case, sad sack, sauntering, scatterbrained, serpentine, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, ski bum, skid-row bum, snaky, spasmodic, spineless, stiff, straggling, stray, straying, street Arab, street urchin, strolling, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, swerving, tatterdemalion, temperamental, tennis bum, traipsing, tramp, transient, transitory, transmigratory, truant, turning, turnpiker, twisting, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, urchin, vacillating, vag, vagabond, vagarious, variable, vaurien, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, waif, waifs and strays, wandering, wanton, wastrel, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayfaring, wayward, whimsical, winding, wishy-washy, worthless fellow, wretch, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

vagrant

Changeableness

N changeableness, mutability, inconstancy, versatility, mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium, vacillation, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, restlessness, fidgets, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers, wheel of Fortune, transientness, changeable, changeful, changing, mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing, protean, proteiform, versatile, unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled, fluctuating, restless, agitated, erratic, fickle, irresolute, capricious, touch and go, inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, alterable, plastic, mobile, transient, wavering, seesaw, off and on, a rolling stone gathers no moss, pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina.

Journey

N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road, traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.

Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.