vagrant
a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
Law. an idle person without visible means of support, as a tramp or beggar.
a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover.
wandering idly without a permanent home or employment; living in vagabondage: vagrant beggars.
of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant: the vagrant life.
wandering or roaming from place to place; nomadic.
(of plants) straggling in growth.
not fixed or settled, especially in course; moving hither and thither: a vagrant leaf blown by the wind.
Origin of vagrant
1synonym study For vagrant
Other words from vagrant
- va·grant·ly, adverb
- va·grant·ness, noun
- non·va·grant, adjective
- non·va·grant·ly, adverb
- non·va·grant·ness, noun
- un·va·grant, adjective
- un·va·grant·ly, adverb
- un·va·grant·ness, noun
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How to use vagrant in a sentence
Further, every field boasted trees, self-planted, sprung from chance seed vagrantly cast.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South | Martha McCulloch WilliamsSo fast and vagrantly was the floe shifting its formation that what had been a clear path was now crossed by a mighty barrier.
The Adventures of Billy Topsail | Norman Duncan
British Dictionary definitions for vagrant
/ (ˈveɪɡrənt) /
a person of no settled abode, income, or job; tramp
a migratory animal that is off course
wandering about; nomadic
of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant or vagabond
moving in an erratic fashion, without aim or purpose; wayward
(of plants) showing uncontrolled or straggling growth
Origin of vagrant
1- Archaic equivalent: vagrom (ˈveɪɡrəm)
Derived forms of vagrant
- vagrantly, adverb
- vagrantness, noun
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