errant
adjective
[ ˈɛr(ə)nt ]
• erring or straying from the accepted course or standards.
• "an errant husband coming back from a night on the tiles"
Similar:
offending,
guilty,
culpable,
misbehaving,
delinquent,
lawless,
lawbreaking,
criminal,
transgressing,
aberrant,
deviant,
erring,
sinning,
mischievous,
badly behaved,
troublesome,
difficult,
unmanageable,
unruly,
disobedient,
uncontrollable,
out of control,
• travelling in search of adventure.
• "that same lady errant"
Similar:
travelling,
wandering,
itinerant,
journeying,
rambling,
roaming,
roving,
drifting,
floating,
wayfaring,
voyaging,
touring,
peripatetic,
unsettled,
rootless,
restless,
on the move,
on the go,
on the wing,
nomadic,
vagabond,
vagrant,
migrant,
migratory,
migrating,
transient,
displaced,
globetrotting,
jet-setting,
Origin:
Middle English (in errant (sense 2)): errant (sense 1) from Latin errant- ‘erring’, from the verb errare ; errant (sense 2) from Old French errant ‘travelling’, present participle of errer, from late Latin iterare ‘go on a journey’, from iter ‘journey’. Compare with arrant.
