vagrant

Speech parts

1. vagrant - Noun

2. vagrant - Adjective

3. vagrant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.

Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.

One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

vagabond rover nomad tramp wayfarer wanderer roamer floating transient drifting itinerant beggar bum hobo aimless
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Antonyms

Amerindian American Indian resident ambitious ambition affluent
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Hypernyms

rover roamer bird of passage have-not poor person

Hyponyms

beachcomber bum hobo

Phrases with the word

filthy vagrant vagrant darter vagrant life

Examples

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. Ambrose Bierce

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering for. Mark Twain

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. Anne Rice

I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, "Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising! John Godfrey Saxe

I'm not a vagrant. I'm a hobo. Big difference. Lee Child

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. (Ambrose Bierce) English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

vagrance vagrancy vagrancy issue vagrant darter vagrant life vagrantise