Vacillate vs Vagabond - What's the difference?
vacillate | vagabond |
To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
* 1910:
To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
* 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a hobo.
* Bible, Genesis iv. 12
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
* Milton
* 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
As verbs the difference between vacillate and vagabond
is that vacillate is to sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate while vagabond is to roam, as a vagabond.As a noun vagabond is
a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.As an adjective vagabond is
floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.vacillate
English
Verb
(vacillat)- Its [the barometer's] normal register in the Paumotus [the Tuamotus] was 29.90, and it was quite customary to see it vacillate between 29.85 and 30.00, or even 30.05; [...]
- On the streets of Berlin, Ruth and her compatriots vacillated "between hope and despair."
Synonyms
* (to sway from one side to the other) stagger * (to swing indecisively) blow hot and cold, waffleExternal links
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* ----vagabond
English
Noun
(en noun)- A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
Synonyms
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* personAdjective
(-)- To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
- Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.
