rove

Questions about rove

What is another word for rove?

It depends which rove you mean. In the sense “move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment”, the synonyms are roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, range, drift, vagabond. Across all 1 sense there are 11 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of rove?

WordNet records no antonym for rove. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for rove come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of rove

• Full entry for roveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
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