Vagabondly

Part of speech: adverb

Definitions

1. Maintaining a lifestyle that involves frequent movement and lack of settled residence, often seeking new experiences
2. Exhibiting a way of living that is transient and peripatetic, marked by a lack of fixed abode or commitment
3. In a manner characterized by roaming without a fixed home or steady place to stay

Etymology: "Vagabondly" is built from "vagabond," which English borrowed from French "vagabond," itself taken from Latin "vagabundus," meaning "wandering" or "roaming." The Latin adjective draws on "vagari," "to wander," and its ending "-bundus" also appears in "moribundus," "dying," though the exact relationship between the two endings is uncertain. The adverb adds the English suffix "-ly" to the adjective, as in "steady" becoming "steadily." The result describes an action carried out in the manner of someone who roams from place to place without a settled home.

Synonyms: nomadically, wanderingly, roamingly, driftingly, transiently

Antonyms: settledly, stationarily, rootedly, residentially, statically