roving

roving is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Rove. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. present participle. of Rove
2. noun. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.
3. noun. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
4. noun. The act of one who roves or wanders.
5. noun. travelling about without any clear destination

   "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

   Synonyms: vagabondage, wandering

6. adjective. migratory

   "a restless mobile society"

   "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"

   Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, wandering

Synonyms

vagabondage, wandering, mobile, nomadic, peregrine

Common word forms

rove, rovings, rovingly, rovingness

Words from these letters

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