Word Meanings - VAGABOND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak. 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond

Additional info about word: VAGABOND

1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak. 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate. Milton. 3. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VAGABOND)

• Rascal
• Rogue
• scoundrel
• vagabond
• scamp
• villain
• knave
• Renegade
• Apostate
• traitor
• deserter
• heretic
• betrayer
• backslider
• turncoat
• recreant
• Vagabond
• rascal
• cheat
• swindler
• sharper
• Scoundrel
• Villain
• miscreant
• reprobate
• Truant
• loitering
• idling
• shirking
• vagrant
• loose
• apostate
• renegade

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VAGABOND)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Sanction
• commend
• approve

Related words: (words related to VAGABOND)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• SHIRKER
  One who shirks. Macaulay.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• KNAVESS
  A knavish woman. Carlyle.
• IDLE-PATED
  Idle-headed; stupid.
• TRAITOR
  L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers
• SCAMPER
  To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. Macaulay. The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. S. Sharpe. (more info) campus the field . See Camp, and cf. Decamp, Scamp,
• RASCALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. 2. The poorer and lower classes of people. The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• TRAITORY
  Treachery. Chaucer.
• APOSTATE
  One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• TURNCOAT
  One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan.
• ROGUERY
  1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
• RANCIDLY
  In a rancid manner.
• OUTVILLAIN
  To exceed in villainy.
• SQUALIDLY
  In a squalid manner.
• DISCAMP
  To drive from a camp. Holland.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• ACRIDLY
  In an acid manner.
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.