vagrant as a noun: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
vagrant
noun
1 vagrant
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support.
synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagabond.
Roget 268:
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 [U.S.],
night walker,
sleep walker;
noctambulist,
runabout,
straphanger,
swagman,
swagsman [Austral.];
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†.
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Dutch: zwerver, landloper, vagebond
Polish: tułacz, łazęga, włóczykij, powsinoga, rajzer, włóczęga, cygan
adjective
1 vagrant
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another:
— Vagrant hippies of the sixties.
synonyms: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond.
Roget 266:
traveling
etc.
v.;
ambulatory,
itinerant,
peripatetic,
roving,
rambling,
gadding,
discursive,
vagrant,
migratory,
monadic;
circumforanean†,
circumforaneous†;
noctivagrant†,
mundivagrant;
locomotive.
wayfaring,
wayworn;
travel-stained.
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Roget 149:
changeable,
changeful;
changing
etc.
140;
mutable,
variable,
checkered,
ever changing;
protean,
proteiform†;
versatile.
unstaid†,
inconstant;
unsteady,
unstable,
unfixed,
unsettled;
fluctuating
etc.
v.;
restless;
agitated
etc.
315;
erratic,
fickle;
irresolute
etc.
605;
capricious
etc.
608;
touch and go;
inconsonant,
fitful,
spasmodic;
vibratory;
vagrant,
wayward;
desultory;
afloat;
alternating;
alterable,
plastic,
mobile;
transient
etc.
111;
wavering.
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Roget 279:
deviating
etc.
v.;
aberrant,
errant;
excursive,
discursive;
devious,
desultory,
loose;
rambling;
stray,
erratic,
vagrant,
undirected,
circuitous,
indirect,
zigzag;
crab-like.
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Polish: włóczęgowski
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