Synonyms:
aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant
Meaning: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond
Meaning: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Usage examples
Accidents which perpetually deflect our vagrant attention
Should some vagrant pass near by, she hurries from her watch-tower, lifts a limb and puts the intruder to flight.
I, the wretched little vagrant that was brought up before the recorder and was about to be sent to the House of Refuge for juvenile delinquents?
After a few months of desultory instruction young Abraham knew all that these vagrant literati could teach him. His last school-days were passed with one Swaney in 1826, who taught at a distance of four and a half miles from the Lincoln cabin.
Down toward Stratford there are flat islands covered with sedge, long rows of weeping-willows, low hazel, hawthorn, and places where "Green Grow the Rushes, O." Then, if the farmer leaves a spot untilled, the dogrose pre-empts the place and showers its petals on the vagrant winds.
How smoothly would this vagrant brook glide at such times through some bosom of green meadowland among the mountains, where the quiet was only interrupted by the occasional tinkling of a bell from the lazy cattle among the clover or the sound of a woodcutter's axe from the neighboring forest!