Peripatetic

Meaning of Peripatetic

adjective
  1. travelling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods.
    the peripatetic nature of military life
  2. Aristotelian.
noun
  1. a person who travels from place to place, especially a teacher who works in more than one school or college.
    peripatetics have been cut under local management of schools
  2. an Aristotelian philosopher.

late Middle English (denoting an Aristotelian philosopher): from Old French peripatetique, via Latin from Greek peripatētikos ‘walking up and down’, from the verb peripatein .

Information about Peripatetic

  • The plural form of Peripatetic is: Peripatetics.
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Hyphenation of Peripatetic

Peri-patetic

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
  • Peripatetic is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Peripatetic synonyms

Meaning Aristotelian:

Aristotelian, Aristotelean, Aristotelic

Meaning wayfaring:

wayfaring

Meaning living the life of a nomad; wandering:

nomadic

Meaning travelling from place to place:

itinerant

Meaning going or being transported from place to place:

travelling

Meaning travelling aimlessly from place to place; itinerant:

wandering

Meaning constantly moving from one area or place to another:

roving

Meaning moving about aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area:

roaming

Meaning tending to migrate or having migrated:

migrant

Meaning denoting an animal that migrates:

migratory

Meaning relating to or adapted for walking:

ambulatory

Meaning lacking order or stability:

unsettled

Meaning having no settled home:

vagabond

Meaning relating to or living the life of a vagrant:

vagrant

Anagrams of Peripatetic

precipitate

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