wandering 音标拼音: [w'ɑndɚɪŋ]
a . 徘徊的,流浪的,蜿蜒的
n . 流浪,梦话
徘徊的,流浪的,蜿蜒的流浪,梦话
wandering adj 1 :
migratory ; "
a restless mobile society "; "
the nomadic habits of the Bedouins "; "
believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future "; "
wandering tribes " [
synonym : {
mobile }, {
nomadic }, {
peregrine }, {
roving },
{
wandering }]
2 :
of a path e .
g .; "
meandering streams "; "
rambling forest paths "; "
the river followed its wandering course "; "
a winding country road " [
synonym : {
meandering (
a )}, {
rambling },
{
wandering (
a )}, {
winding }]
3 :
having no fixed course ; "
an erratic comet "; "
his life followed a wandering course "; "
a planetary vagabond " [
synonym :
{
erratic }, {
planetary }, {
wandering }]
n 1 :
travelling about without any clear destination ; "
she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him " [
synonym :
{
wandering }, {
roving }, {
vagabondage }]
Wandering \
Wan "
der *
ing \,
a . &
n .
from {
Wander },
v .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Wandering albatross } (
Zool .),
the great white albatross .
See Illust .
of {
Albatross }.
{
Wandering cell } (
Physiol .),
an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement ,
as one of the white corpuscles of the blood .
{
Wandering Jew } (
Bot .),
any one of several creeping species of {
Tradescantia },
which have alternate ,
pointed leaves ,
and a soft ,
herbaceous stem which roots freely at the joints .
They are commonly cultivated in hanging baskets ,
window boxes ,
etc .
{
Wandering kidney } (
Med .),
a morbid condition in which one kidney ,
or ,
rarely ,
both kidneys ,
can be moved in certain directions ; --
called also {
floating kidney }, {
movable kidney }.
{
Wandering liver } (
Med .),
a morbid condition of the liver ,
similar to wandering kidney .
{
Wandering mouse } (
Zool .),
the whitefooted ,
or deer ,
mouse .
See Illust .
of {
Mouse }.
{
Wandering spider } (
Zool .),
any one of a tribe of spiders that wander about in search of their prey .
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1913 Webster ]
Wander \
Wan "
der \,
v .
i . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Wandered };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Wandering }.] [
OE .
wandren ,
wandrien ,
AS .
wandrian ;
akin to G .
wandern to wander ;
fr .
AS .
windan to turn .
See {
Wind }
to turn .]
[
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1 .
To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view ;
to range about ;
to stroll ;
to rove ;
as ,
to wander over the fields .
[
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They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins .
--
Heb .
xi .
37 .
[
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He wandereth abroad for bread . --
Job xv .
23 .
[
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2 .
To go away ;
to depart ;
to stray off ;
to deviate ;
to go astray ;
as ,
a writer wanders from his subject .
[
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When God caused me to wander from my father '
s house .
--
Gen .
xx .
13 .
[
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O ,
let me not wander from thy commandments . --
Ps .
cxix .
10 .
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3 .
To be delirious ;
not to be under the guidance of reason ;
to rave ;
as ,
the mind wanders .
[
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Syn :
To roam ;
rove ;
range ;
stroll ;
gad ;
stray ;
straggly ;
err ;
swerve ;
deviate ;
depart .
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1913 Webster ]
341 Moby Thesaurus words for "
wandering ":
Wanderjahr ,
aberrancy ,
aberrant ,
aberration ,
aberrative ,
abnormal ,
adrift ,
afebrile delirium ,
afloat ,
afoot and lighthearted ,
aimless ,
aimlessness ,
alternating ,
ambulant ,
amorphous ,
anomalistic ,
anomalous ,
babbling ,
bend ,
bereft of reason ,
bias ,
brainsick ,
brainstorm ,
branching off ,
broken ,
bumming ,
by the way ,
capricious ,
careening ,
casual ,
catchy ,
changeable ,
changeful ,
choppy ,
circuitous ,
circuitousness ,
circumforaneous ,
corner ,
crackbrained ,
cracked ,
crazed ,
crazy ,
crook ,
curve ,
daft ,
declination ,
delirious ,
deliriousness ,
delirium ,
deluded ,
demented ,
departing ,
departure ,
deprived of reason ,
deranged ,
desultoriness ,
desultory ,
detour ,
deviable ,
deviance ,
deviancy ,
deviant ,
deviating ,
deviation ,
deviative ,
deviatory ,
devious ,
deviousness ,
different ,
digression ,
digressive ,
digressiveness ,
disarticulated ,
disconnected ,
discontinuous ,
discursion ,
discursive ,
discursiveness ,
disjunct ,
disordered ,
disoriented ,
dispersed ,
disproportionate ,
distracted ,
distrait ,
distraught ,
divagation ,
divagatory ,
divarication ,
divergence ,
divergent ,
diversion ,
dizzy ,
dogleg ,
double ,
drift ,
drifting ,
eccentric ,
episodic ,
errant ,
errantry ,
erratic ,
excursion ,
excursive ,
excursus ,
exorbitation ,
fast and loose ,
fickle ,
fitful ,
flickering ,
flighty ,
flitting ,
floating ,
fluctuating ,
footloose ,
footloose and fancy -
free ,
formless ,
frantic ,
freakish ,
frivolous ,
fugitive ,
gadding ,
giddy ,
gratuitous ,
guttering ,
gypsy -
like ,
gypsyish ,
hairpin ,
hallucinated ,
halting ,
haphazard ,
herky -
jerky ,
heteroclite ,
heteromorphic ,
hit -
or -
miss ,
hoboism ,
immethodical ,
impetuous ,
impulsive ,
inchoate ,
incoherence ,
incoherent ,
inconsistent ,
inconstant ,
indecisive ,
indirect ,
indirection ,
indiscriminate ,
infirm ,
insane ,
intermittent ,
intermitting ,
irrational ,
irregular ,
irresolute ,
irresponsible ,
itineracy ,
itinerancy ,
jerky ,
labyrinthine ,
landloping ,
lightheaded ,
lingual delirium ,
loco ,
loose ,
lunatic ,
lurching ,
mad ,
maddened ,
manic ,
maundering ,
mazed ,
mazy ,
meandering ,
meaningless ,
mental ,
mentally deficient ,
mercurial ,
meshuggah ,
migrational ,
migratory ,
misshapen ,
moody ,
moon -
struck ,
nomad ,
nomadic ,
nomadism ,
non compos ,
non compos mentis ,
nonsymmetrical ,
nonsystematic ,
nonuniform ,
not all there ,
not right ,
obliquity ,
odd ,
of unsound mind ,
off ,
orderless ,
out -
of -
the -
way ,
patchy ,
perambulatory ,
peregrination ,
pererration ,
planetary ,
planless ,
promiscuous ,
psycho ,
queer ,
ramble ,
rambling ,
random ,
ranging ,
ranting ,
raving ,
reasonless ,
restless ,
roam ,
roaming ,
rough ,
rove ,
roving ,
scatterbrained ,
scrappy ,
senseless ,
serpentine ,
shapeless ,
sheer ,
shift ,
shifting ,
shifting course ,
shifting path ,
shifty ,
shuffling ,
sick ,
skew ,
slant ,
snaky ,
snatchy ,
spasmatic ,
spasmic ,
spasmodic ,
spastic ,
spineless ,
sporadic ,
spotty ,
staggering ,
stark -
mad ,
stark -
staring mad ,
straggling ,
straggly ,
strange ,
stray ,
straying ,
strolling ,
subnormal ,
sweep ,
swerve ,
swerving ,
swinging ,
systemless ,
tack ,
tetched ,
touched ,
traipsing ,
transient ,
transitory ,
transmigratory ,
turn ,
turning ,
twist ,
twisting ,
unaccountable ,
unarranged ,
unbalanced ,
uncertain ,
unclassified ,
uncontrolled ,
undependable ,
undirected ,
undisciplined ,
unequal ,
uneven ,
unfixed ,
ungraded ,
unhinged ,
unjoined ,
unmethodical ,
unmetrical ,
unnatural ,
unordered ,
unorganized ,
unpredictable ,
unregular ,
unreliable ,
unrestrained ,
unrhythmical ,
unsane ,
unsettled ,
unsorted ,
unsound ,
unstable ,
unstable as water ,
unstaid ,
unsteadfast ,
unsteady ,
unsymmetrical ,
unsystematic ,
ununiform ,
vacillating ,
vagabond ,
vagabondage ,
vagabondia ,
vagabondism ,
vagrancy ,
vagrant ,
vague ,
variable ,
variation ,
veer ,
veering ,
vicissitudinary ,
vicissitudinous ,
volatile ,
wanderlust ,
wanton ,
warp ,
wavering ,
wavery ,
wavy ,
wayfaring ,
wayward ,
whimsical ,
wild ,
winding ,
wishy -
washy ,
witless ,
wobbling ,
wobbly ,
yaw ,
zigzag
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