Synonyms of the word

drifter

• n. (pejorative) A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
• n. (nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
• n. (automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide…
• n. (fishing) One who takes part in drift fishing.
• n. (mining, historical) A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.

floater

• n. Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats.
• n. An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when…
• n. A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous…
• n. An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain…
• n. (insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
• n. (police jargon) A floating corpse picked up from a body of water.
• n. (sports) An unaffiliated player.
• n. (surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or…
• n. (vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
• n. (slang, by extension) Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that…
• n. (two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
• n. (Australia) A pie floater.
• n. (politics) A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
• n. (politics, US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents…
• n. (US, politics) One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false…
• n. (India) A sandal.
• n. A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).

have-not

• n. singular variant of have nots.

roamer

• n. One who roams.

rover

• n. (archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
• n. One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
• n. A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
• n. A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
• n. Position in Australian Rules football, one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around…
• n. (croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued…
• n. (obsolete) A sort of arrow.
• n. A pirate or pirate ship.

vagabond

• n. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
• n. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without…
• v. To roam, as a vagabond.
• adj. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

vagrant

• n. A person without a home; a wanderer.
• n. (ornithology) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.
• adj. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
• adj. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.

wanderer

• n. One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
• n. The far-migrating butterflies of genus Danaus.