adj. leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; peripatetic, itinerant
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wandering; roving; leading the life of a nomad: specifically applied to pastoral tribes that have no fixed abode, but wander about from place to place according to the state of the pasturage.
Figuratively, wandering; changeable; unsettled.
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adj. migratory
Word Usage
"In Romantic poetry, for instance, and its Victorian derivations and attenuations, anything nomadic is anticipated by the sporadic: those irregular phonemic rhythms entrained to signification in the first place — but not entirely enchained there."