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Excursive
Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.
Electron
Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.
Peripatetic
Walking about; itinerant.
Swinging
of Swing
Eccentric
A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion ..
Rough
Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
Journey
The travel or work of a day.
Crescent
The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
Rough
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
Planless
Having no plan.
Unbalanced
Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise.
Nomadic
Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.
Straggling
of Straggle
Drifting
of Drift
Peregrination
A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries.
Haunt
To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
Digression
The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
Excursion
A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
Roaming
of Roam
Vagabondage
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
Discursion
The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought.
Errantry
A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures.
Hairpin
A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.
Vagary
A wandering or strolling.
Bard
A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
Lurching
of Lurch
Yaw
A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.
Flitting
of Flit
Vaguely
In a vague manner.
Wanderingly
In a wandering manner.
Chaotically
In a chaotic manner.
Circumforaneous
Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house.
Nomadism
The state of being a nomad.
Itinerant
Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.
Migratory
Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.
Vagrancy
The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
Nomad
One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
Intermittent
Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever.
Vagabond
Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
Itinerancy
A passing from place to place.
Fluctuating
of Fluctuate
Jerky
Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.
Ramble
To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world..
Diversion
The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
Hallucination
The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
Delirium
A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other ..
Immateriality
The state or quality of being immaterial or incorporeal; as, the immateriality of the soul.
Aberration
The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
Phantasm
An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream.
Anomalous
Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.
Incorporeal
Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial.
Inconstant
Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or ..
Error
A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
Touched
of Touch
Desultory
Leaping or skipping about.
Amorphous
Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.
Wavy
Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.
Moody
Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.
Unsorted
Not sorted; not classified; as, a lot of unsorted goods.
Patchy
Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
Wanton
Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
Alien
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
Promiscuous
Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass.
Restless
Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child.
Indirection
Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.
Babbling
of Babble
Formless
Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
Giddy
Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.
Unaccountable
Not accountable or responsible; free from control.
Errant
Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
Strolling
of Stroll
Unnatural
Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes.
Reasonless
Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind.
Stroller
One who strolls; a vagrant.
Gad
The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.
Floater
One who floats or swims.
Roamer
One who roams; a wanderer.
Outsider
One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.
Divergent
Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.
Foreigner
A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.
Lariat
A long, slender rope made of hemp or strips of hide, esp. one with a noose; -- used as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering..
Shuffling
of Shuffle
Irresponsible
Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.
Uncertain
Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful.
Incoherent
Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
Mover
A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
Odd
Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.
Gad
To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.
Mental
Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.
Crazy
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
Distraught
of Distract
Insane
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.
Uneven
Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.
Raving
of Rave
Crescent
The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.
Eidolon
An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.
Wild
Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox..
Larva
Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. Th..
Departure
Division; separation; putting away.
Delirious
Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.
Mundivagant
Wandering over the world.
Octet
A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.
Purposeless
Having no purpose or result; objectless.
Senseless
Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
Labyrinthine
Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
Theophany
A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.
Peregrine
Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic.
Rove
of Reeve
Erratic
Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars.
Devious
Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.
Rhapsodist
Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and other epic poets.
Rover
One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
Disproportionate
Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it ..
Digressive
Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.
Deviating
of Deviate
Astray
Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.
Rambling
of Ramble
Non compos mentis
Not of sound mind; not having the regular use of reason; hence, also, as a noun, an idiot; a lunatic; one devoid of reason, either by nature or from accident.
Refugee
One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.
Scrappy
Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.
Extravagance
A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.
Slant
To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
Indirect
Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
Fugitive
Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
Banshee
Alt. of Banshie
Dispersed
of Disperse
Exile
Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.
Cracked
of Crack
Whimsical
Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish.
Wraith
An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.
Drift
A driving; a violent movement.
Appearance
The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
Unsound
Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased.
Shift
To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
Indiscriminate
Not discriminate; wanting discrimination; undistinguishing; not making any distinction; confused; promiscuous.
Snaky
Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.
Vacillating
of Vacillate
Yaw
To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
Capricious
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
Haphazard
Extra hazard; chance; accident; random.
Subnormal
That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
Undirected
Not directed; not guided; left without direction.
Shapeless
Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.
Afloat
Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
Stray
To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
Broken
of Break
Wanderer
One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
Turning
of Turn
Halting
of Hail
Disordered
of Disorder
Veering
of Veer
Wayward
Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.
Spasmodic
Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.
Impetuous
Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.
Discontinuous
Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
Episodic
Alt. of Episodical
Spotty
Full of spots; marked with spots.
Unequal
Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners ..
Divergence
Alt. of Divergency
Aimless
Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life.
Skew
Awry; obliquely; askew.
Mercurial
Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.
Flickering
of Flicker
Shifting
of Shift
Staggering
of Stagger
Pererration
A wandering, or rambling, through various places.
Phantom
That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.
Eccentric
Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
Swerve
To stray; to wander; to rope.
Vagrant
Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
Freakish
Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
Indecisive
Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer.
Disconnected
of Disconnect
Unsymmetrical
Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion pf parts.
Sporadic
Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower.
Misshapen
Having a bad or ugly form.
Unorganized
Not organized; being without organic structure; specifically (Biol.), not having the different tissues and organs characteristic of living organisms, nor the power of growth and development; ..
Irresolute
Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution.
Rough
Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.
Choppy
Full of cracks.
Inchoate
Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.
Frivolous
Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument.
Orderless
Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
Abnormal
Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.
Fitful
Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
Erroneous
Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural.
Changeable
Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.
Shifty
Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.
Sprite
A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.
Barbarian
A foreigner.
Transient
Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not..
Satellite
An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.
Unstable
Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.
Discursive
Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
Floating
of Float
Double
Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.
Twisting
of Twist
Sheer
Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
Outlaw
A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
Wavering
of Waver
Ranting
of Rant
Queer
At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.
Variable
Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.
Deranged
of Derange
Vague
Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
Circuitous
Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
Tortuous
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
Mazy
Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error.
Mad
A slattern.
Inconsistent
Not consistent; showing inconsistency; irreconcilable; discordant; at variance, esp. as regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory.
Flighty
Fleeting; swift; transient.
Spirit
Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
Distracted
of Distract
Corner
The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
Presence
The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.
Materialization
The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
Dizzy
Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct.
Daft
Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.
Travel
To labor; to travail.
Disjunct
Disjoined; separated.
Unreliable
Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable.
Meandering
of Meander
Astral
Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike.
Wandering
of Wander
Deviation
The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.
Off
In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
Spineless
Having no spine.
Irrational
Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.
Volatile
Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
Loco
A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
Fickle
Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.
Casual
Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
Gratuitous
Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice.
Apparition
The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
Witless
Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment.
Adrift
Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Winding
of Wind
Demented
Insane; mad; of unsound mind.
Sick
Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
Lunatic
Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.
Out-of-the-way
See under Out, adv.
Planetary
Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
Veer
To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.
Spastic
Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.
Infirm
Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution.
Zigzag
Something that has short turns or angles.
Strange
Belonging to another country; foreign.
Sweep
To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used a..
Control
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
Knight-errant
A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
Aberrant
Wandering; straying from the right way.
Roving
of Rove
Shift
To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
Shade
Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light...
Extravagant
Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.
Horde
A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
Bias
A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
Impulsive
Having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.
Shadow
Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tre..
Vision
The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
Divagation
A wandering about or going astray; digression.
Curve
Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
Minstrel
In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a ..
Detour
A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
Wait
To watch; to observe; to take notice.
Spook
A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
Serpentine
Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpen..
Warp
To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
Twist
To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
Straying
of Stray
Transitory
Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.
Declination
The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
Random
Force; violence.
Aberrancy
State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc.
Variation
The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different li..
Frantic
Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.
Different
Distinct; separate; not the same; other.
Moon
The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness..
Loose
Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
Irregular
Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to establis..
Tack
A stain; a tache.
Guide
The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
Shape
To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
form
A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
Turn
To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change positi..
Bend
To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
Ghost
The spirit; the soul of man.
Crook
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
