vagabonded
Drifted without purpose
Vagabonded is the past tense of vagabond, meaning to wander from place to place without a fixed home or purpose.
The word carries romantic overtones of aimless travel and freedom from routine: She vagabonded through Europe for a year after college.
Literary and somewhat old-fashioned.
Moved without fixed course
- roamedTraveled without fixed course
- driftedMoved without aim
- journeyedTraveled a distance
- rambledSpoke aimlessly, at length
traversed · meandered · trekked · migrated · globetrotted · backpacked · hitchhiked · roving
Artistic nonconformist type
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- homelessWithout a dwelling
- rootlessHaving no stable foundation
- unsettledNot yet resolved
displaced · drifter · hobo · tramp · nomadic · gypsy · beatnik · counterculture
wandered
Moved without fixed course
rambled · traversed · meandered · trekked · migrated · globetrotted · backpacked · hitchhiked · roving · itinerant
bohemian
Artistic nonconformist type
unsettled · displaced · drifter · hobo · tramp · nomadic · gypsy · beatnik · counterculture · unconventional
picaresque
Rascally adventure narrative style
knight-errant · Kerouac · Steinbeck · tramping · sojourned · exile · wanderlust · romantic · escapist · byways
vagabondedsettled
No longer in question
stayed put · put down roots · homesteaded · remained · resided
- vagabond lifeHomeless wandering existence