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- pronunciation:
- veI
gr
 nt
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
one who lacks a permanent home and wanders from place to place; nomad; tramp.
Vagrants are camping under the bridge to shelter themselves from rain.- synonyms:
- nomad, tramp, vagabond
- similar words:
- drifter, floater, gypsy, hobo, itinerant, migrant, rambler, roamer, transient, wanderer, wayfarer
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| definition 2: |
in law, a person who has no obvious means of support and is therefore viewed as a public nuisance; beggar.
- synonyms:
- derelict
- similar words:
- beggar, bum, hobo, panhandler, tramp, vagabond
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| related words: |
derelict, mendicant, nomad, outcast |
adjective + (n.)vagrant
abandoned, certain, downtown, homeless, nearest, old, sorry, stray
verb + (n.)vagrant
arrest, attract, catch, chase, drag, drift, live, notice, pass, steal, wander
noun + (n.)vagrant
addict, beggar, breeze, bum, criminal, dealer, debtor, drug, drunk, felon, hair, look, neighborhood, others, panhandler, station, step, thief, vandal
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
wandering from place to place; having no permanent home; nomadic.
- synonyms:
- migrant, migratory, nomadic, vagabond
- similar words:
- homeless, itinerant, peripatetic, rambling, roaming, transient, wandering
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| definition 2: |
having no visible means of support, or wandering from one occasional job to another.
- similar words:
- itinerant, migrant, nomadic, transient, vagabond, wandering
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| definition 3: |
moving or growing in a random manner, as thoughts or plants.
- synonyms:
- random
- similar words:
- meandering, rambling, roaming, roving, wandering
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| related words: |
ambulatory |
(adj.)vagrant
+ noun
air, bird, comet, desire, man, memory, musing, opinion, scholar, thought, wife, wind
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| derivation: |
vagrantly (adv.) |
The word vagrant
contains the following parts:
vag
Latin
root
that means wander
  Example words:
-ant, -ent
Latin
adjective- and noun-forming suffix
that means (in adjectives) doing the action denoted by the verb root; (in nouns) one who or that which does the action denoted by the verb root.
More about this word part:
The suffix -ant
, -ent
forms adjectives and, to a much lesser extent, nouns from Latin verb stems such as fid in confident
and stud in student
. This suffix is the equivalent in Latin of the "-ing" inflection in English. Many adjectives ending in -ant
, -ent
have a corresponding noun ending in -ance, -ence, -ancy, -ency.
Example words:
aberrant, accident, accidental, adherent, adjacent, affluent, agent, alterant, ambient, antecedent, applicant, arrogant, benevolent, coherent, combatant, complacent, confidant, confident, consequent, consultant, continent, conversant, current, defoliant, dependent, different, disinfectant, dissonant, dominant, efficient, eloquent, equilibrant, exorbitant, extravagant, fluent, hydrant, ignorant, important, inadvertent, incessant, incognizant, inconsonant, indignant, informant, itinerant, malevolent, miscreant, parent, participant, patient, precedent, predominant, president, prudent, pungent, recreant, reluctant, repugnant, resident, resonant, servant, significant, student, tenant, transcendent, vacant, vagrant, variant, verdant
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