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nomadically

nomadically

1 6.9
In a way that moves from place to place without a fixed home
  • adverb
  • /noʊˈmædɪkli/
: nómada
  • Some families live nomadically, setting up temporary camps and moving every few months to find water and food for their livestock.

We've always been wandering around nomadically, looking for a place to land.

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Examples

  • Some families live nomadically, setting up temporary camps and moving every few months to find water and food for their livestock.

  • We've always been wandering around nomadically, looking for a place to land.

  • I believe that you can still live semi-nomadically and have a stable life, but it just has to work with your family (i.e.,

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  • After burning out on the blistering pace of start-up life, Levi quit his job, and he and Brooke lived nomadically for a couple of years.

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  • After burning out on the blistering pace of start-up life, Levi quit his job, and he and Brooke lived nomadically for a couple of years.

  • We've always been wandering around nomadically, looking for a place to land.

Synonyms

on the move
vsnomadically
110 3.9

Often traveling or changing what you do

is a long term way of living without any permanent home

Antonyms

78 2.7

Living in one place and not moving around

47 2.9

Not moving and staying in one place

How Nomadic

constantly
740 1.0
often
∞ 1.0
nomadically
1 6.9
occasionally
407 2.0
rarely
508 1.0

Surface Forms

nomadically positive

Morphology

nomadically = nomadic (transparent) = nomad + ic + ally

Formed regularly by adding the adverbial suffix '-ally' to the adjective 'nomadic'; the meaning 'in a nomadic manner' is directly derived.

Etymology

Nomadically comes from nomad, an old word for people who 'roam' or 'wander' from place to place, so a helpful image is of someone always moving like a traveller. So, to live nomadically means to move from place to place without a fixed home.