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wayfaring, adj. hiking, on the open road, peregrinating, peripatetic; journeying, traveling, itinerant, rambling, roving, roaming; gypsy, nomadic; on the move, on the go, restless, with sand in one's shoes, with wanderlust.
waylay, v. ambush, ambuscade, lie in wait; lurk, skulk; entrap, ensnare, decoy, lure.
way-out, adj. Informal. 1. advanced, progressive, avant-garde, forward-looking, ahead of its time; original, novel, unique, new; imaginative, creative, unconventional, unorthodox, Inf. far-out; modern, ultramodern, modernistic; exploratory, experimental, innovative, ground-breaking, precedent-setting.
2. bizzare, strange, odd, unusual, uncommon; abnormal, irregular, deviant, aberrant, erratic; queer, peculiar, curious, singular, offbeat; quaint, eccentric, weird, freakish, outlandish; freaky, Inf. kinky, SI. flaky, SI. off the wall.
3. esoteric, exotic, foreign; different, strange, glamorous, exciting.
wayward, adj. 1. disobedient, willful, self-willed, contrary, perverse, wrong-headed, cross-grained, balky, uncooperative, froward, refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; ungovernable, unmanageable, uncontrollable, difficult, restive, unruly, fractious, incorrigible; stubborn, mulish, pigheaded, bullheaded, headstrong; obstinate, inflexible, immovable, adamant, set, set in one's ways; persistent, persevering, pertinacious, bull-dogged, dogged, relentless, single-minded.
2. capricious, whimsical, fanciful, impulsive; fickle, inconstant, changeable, changeful, variable; flighty, mercurial, independable, unsteady, unstable; fitful, erratic, irregular, uneven; wavering, deviating, straying.
weak, adj. 1. frail, fragile, breakable, delicate; unstable, unsteady, unsubstantial; flimsy, jerry-built, gimcrack, rickety, ramshackle, dilapidated, falling apart or down, tumble-down, decayed, rotten.
2. feeble, puny, nonmuscular, nonathletic, enervated, enervate, anemic, Pathol, atonic, Pathol. asthenic, Pathol, neurasthenic; dropping, languid, languishing, limp, flagging, Dial, limpsy, tired, worn-out, about to drop, exhausted, spent, effete; ailing, indisposed, infirm, sickly, weakly, valetudinarian, in poor health, unwell, unhealthy, debilitated, invalid, bedridden; faltering, shaky, doddering, tottering, trembling, senile, anile, decrepit, Inf. dotty; the worse for wear, declining, failing, on one's last legs, going downhill, on the way out, fading, sinking, dying.
3. impotent, impuissant, powerless, helpless; ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, incapable, incompetent, inept, inapt, feckless; unavailing, futile, inutile, useless, hopeless, bootless, nugatory, good for nothing.
4. trifling, trivial, insignificant, meager, mere, piddling, paltry, niggling, worthless, Archaic, seely; inadequate, insufficient, deficient, wanting, lacking, short.
5. lame, shallow, childish, puerile, sophomoric, superficial, vapid, empty, half-baked, SI. half-assed, SI. for the birds; unconvincing, untenable, unbelievable, inconclusive; loose, lax, illogical; unsound, ungrounded, unsupported, unsustained; poor, inferior, unsatisfactory, not up to snuff or par; careless, slipshod, shoddy, sloppy, miserable, Inf. lousy.
6. weak-minded, feeble-minded, dim-witted, soft or weak in the head, balmy, Brit, barmy, Inf. daffy; dull-witted, slow-witted, retarded, imbecilic, moronic, unintelligent, stupid, Inf. dumb; simple-minded, simple, foolish, silly, idiotic, asinine. See - feeble
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