walk about

Speech parts

1. walk about - Verb

2. walk about - Interjection

Meaning

walk with no particular goal

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

perambulate walk around ramble walk truck wander troll ferment promenade stroll toddle roam saunter ambulate circumambulate
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

dart lost fly sprint moto scurry
Show all antonyms

Hypernyms

walk

Examples

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. George Santayana

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door. Arthur Miller

If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. George Eliot

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun it shines everywhere. William Shakespeare

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. Noël Coward

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking. C. L. R. James

Close letter words and terms

walk a mile in someone's shoes walk a straight line walk a tightrope walk across walk affectedly walk all over