'Vagrant' definitions:
Definition of 'vagrant'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Vagrant'
From: GCIDE
- Vagrant \Va"grant\, a. [Probably fr. OF. waucrant, wacrant, p. p. of waucrer, wacrer, walcrer, to wander (probably of Teutonic origin), but influenced by F. vagant, p. pr. of vaguer to stray, L. vagari. Cf. Vagary.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. [1913 Webster]
- That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Vagrant'
From: GCIDE
- Vagrant \Va"grant\, n. One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond. [1913 Webster]
- Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vagrant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- aimless,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- Arab,
- arbitrary,
- beach bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- bo,
- Bowery bum,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- circuitous,
- circumforaneous,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- departing,
- derelict,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devil,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagatory,
- dizzy,
- dogie,
- drifter,
- drifting,
- drunkard,
- eccentric,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flaky,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- floating,
- fluctuating,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- freakish,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- giddy,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- guttersnipe,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- harebrained,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- human wreck,
- humorsome,
- idler,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indirect,
- infirm,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- kinky,
- labyrinthine,
- landloper,
- landloping,
- lazzarone,
- loafer,
- losel,
- lowlife,
- maggoty,
- mauvais sujet,
- mazy,
- mean wretch,
- meandering,
- mercurial,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- moody,
- motiveless,
- mucker,
- mudlark,
- no-good,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- notional,
- out-of-the-way,
- pauvre diable,
- perambulatory,
- peripatetic,
- petulant,
- piker,
- pilgarlic,
- planetary,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- quirky,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- restless,
- roaming,
- rounder,
- roving,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- sauntering,
- scatterbrained,
- serpentine,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- ski bum,
- skid-row bum,
- snaky,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- stiff,
- straggling,
- stray,
- straying,
- street Arab,
- street urchin,
- strolling,
- sundowner,
- surf bum,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- swerving,
- tatterdemalion,
- temperamental,
- tennis bum,
- traipsing,
- tramp,
- transient,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- truant,
- turning,
- turnpiker,
- twisting,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undirected,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unpredictable,
- unreasonable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- urchin,
- vacillating,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagarious,
- variable,
- vaurien,
- veering,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wastrel,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayfaring,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- winding,
- wishy-washy,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch,
- zigzag