What does vagarist mean?
Vagarist means One whose thought wanders in many directions.
Vagarist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Vagarist is a noun meaning One whose thought wanders in many directions.
Meaning
One whose thought wanders in many directions.
Example Sentences
It seemed to be the wild fancy of a vagarist or dreamer.
Greene believed that an old soldier became a "most unconscionable vagarist" whenever he tried to remember anything.
This frame of mind is not common and perhaps not desirable and thence have the opinions popularly obtained that he is an unsubstantial, sentimental vagarist and mystic.
In journeying through the fine land of memory one is apt to become a most unconscionable vagarist, for that curious faculty of the mind, which often seems dead but only slumbers, when once set in motion travels far and refuses to recall one scene or incident without recalling also a hundred others which preceded or followed it.
Word Forms
- vagarists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vacillating, mannerist, erratic, wabbling, tremando, flittering.
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How do you use vagarist in a sentence?
It seemed to be the wild fancy of a vagarist or dreamer.
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