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Antonyms for wanderings
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : won-der-ing |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɒn dər ɪŋ |
- abidance
- accord
- agreement
- arrival
- arriving
- cessation
- coming
- conformity
- continuation
- decline
- decrease
- directness
- entrance
- halt
- idleness
- immigration
- inaction
- inactivity
- indifference
- inertia
- keeping
- normality
- pause
- perfection
- regularity
- remaining
- repose
- rest
- sameness
- similarity
- soundness
- stagnation
- stay
- stoppage
- straightness
- uniformity
Definition of wanderings
Origin :- Old English wandrian "move about aimlessly, wander," from West Germanic *wandrojan (cf. Old Frisian wondria, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch wanderen, German wandern "to wander," a variant form of the root represented in Old High German wantalon "to walk, wander"), from root *wend- "to turn" (see wind (v.)). In reference to the mind, affections, etc., attested from c.1400. Related: Wandered; wandering. The Wandering Jew of Christian legend first mentioned 13c. (cf. French le juif errant, German der ewige Jude).
- As in journey : noun excursion
- As in movement : noun motion, activity
- As in odyssey : noun journey
- As in route : noun path over which someone or something travels
- As in travel : noun journey
- As in emigration : noun migration
- As in aberration : noun different from that expected
- As in roving : noun wayfaring
- As in immigration : noun emigration
- As in irrelevancy : noun digression
- As in parenthesis : noun digression
- As in departure : noun deviation from normal, expected
- As in digression : noun deviation; straying
- As in excursion : noun journey
- In the wanderings of his mind the same duality of life followed him.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- The following is the story of the picture's wanderings, as told at Nuremberg.
- Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
- In one of these wanderings he came on some of the waters of Greenbrier river.
- Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers
- So poor a place he had not seen in all his wanderings through that abject land.
- Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
- His fine, smooth skin was darkened by the exposure of his daily wanderings.
- Extract from : « Dr. Sevier » by George W. Cable
- It so happened that in their wanderings to and fro our glances met.
- Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
- What foolish infatuation had ever suggested to me the Quixotism of these wanderings?
- Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
- But he related willingly the story of his wanderings, and told us all about the conquest of the bay.
- Extract from : « Tales of Unrest » by Joseph Conrad
- Guard, dear old Guard, will never accompany them more in their wanderings.
- Extract from : « The Carroll Girls » by Mabel Quiller-Couch
- The dagger of the assassin continued to track his wanderings.
- Extract from : « Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 » by Various
Synonyms for wanderings
- aberration
- act
- action
- advance
- adventure
- agitation
- airing
- alteration
- apostrophe
- aside
- avenue
- beat
- beeline
- biking
- branching off
- branching out
- byway
- campaign
- caravan
- change
- changing
- circuit
- colonization
- commutation
- constitutional
- course
- crossing
- cruise
- cruising
- day trip
- declination
- deed
- defection
- deflection
- departure
- detour
- development
- deviation
- difference
- digression
- direction
- discursion
- displacement
- distortion
- divagation
- divergence
- divergency
- diversion
- drifting
- drive
- driving
- dynamism
- episode
- evolution
- evolving
- excursion
- excursus
- exercise
- exile
- exodus
- expatriation
- expedition
- exploration
- flight
- floating
- flow
- flux
- flying
- footnote
- gesture
- globe-trotting
- hike
- homesteading
- hop
- in thing
- incident
- innovation
- irregularity
- irrelevancy
- itinerary
- jaunt
- journey
- journeying
- junket
- lapse
- last word
- latest thing
- leaving
- line
- locomotion
- maneuver
- march
- meandering
- migration
- mobility
- motility
- movableness
- move
- movement
- moving
- navigation
- new wrinkle
- note
- novelty
- obiter dictum
- odyssey
- operation
- operativeness
- outing
- overnight
- parenthesis
- passage
- patrol
- pavement
- peregrination
- picnic
- pike
- pilgrimage
- pleasure trip
- plot
- program
- progress
- progression
- promenade
- quest
- ramble
- rambling
- range
- reestablishment
- regression
- relocation
- removal
- resettlement
- ride
- riding
- road
- roaming
- round
- round trip
- rounds
- route
- run
- safari
- sailing
- sally
- saunter
- seafaring
- settling
- shift
- shifting
- short cut
- sightseeing
- sojourn
- steps
- stir
- stirring
- straying
- stroll
- survey
- swing
- tack
- tangent
- tour
- touring
- track
- trail
- tramp
- transferal
- transit
- translating
- transmigration
- transplanting
- travel
- traveling
- travels
- traverse
- trek
- trekking
- trip
- turning
- undertaking
- uprooting
- vagabondage
- vagrancy
- variance
- variation
- veering
- velocity
- venture
- visit
- voyage
- voyaging
- walk
- wandering
- wanderings
- wanderlust
- way
- wayfaring
- weekend
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