Definitions for wandering

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wandering wan·der·ing

Spelling: [won-der-ing]

IPA: /ˈwɒn dər ɪŋ/

Wandering is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 425 anagrams from letters in wandering (adeginnrw).

Definitions for wandering

noun

1. an aimless roving about; leisurely traveling from place to place:
2. Usually, wanderings. aimless travels; meanderings: disordered thoughts or utterances; incoherencies:
3. seemingly aimless or random movement or locomotion by a person with a mental disorder or cognitive impairment: See also elopement (def 2).
4. Mechanics. the drift of a gyroscope or a similar device.

adjective

1. moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling:
2. having no permanent residence; nomadic:
3. meandering; winding:

verb (used with object)

1. to travel about, on, or through:

verb (used without object)

1. to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray:
2. to go aimlessly, indirectly, or casually; meander:
3. to extend in an irregular course or direction:
4. to move, pass, or turn idly, as the hand or the eyes.
5. (of the mind, thoughts, desires, etc.) to take one direction or another without conscious intent or control:
6. to stray from a path, place, companions, etc.:
7. to deviate in conduct, belief, etc.; err; go astray:
8. to think or speak confusedly or incoherently.
9. (of a person with a mental disorder or cognitive impairment) to move about or walk in a seemingly aimless or random manner.

Origin of wandering

before 1000; Middle English (noun, adj.), Old English wandrigende (adj.). See wander, -ing², -ing¹

Examples for wandering

What was the use of wandering about the house in this disconsolate manner?

While wandering the grounds, I keep an eye out for suspicious lumps in the dirt.

"Yes; that is—very much," I stammered, wandering back to Helen's desk.

She felt as if she had been wandering, and had come home to the arms that were about her.

He showed signs of a restless, wandering soul, someone searching for meaning around him.

For perhaps an hour Joe Drummond had been wandering up and down the Street.

He had been wandering about a long time—not in years, for he was less than thirty.

Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.

And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.

After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.