roving

Other forms of roving

plural

rovings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about roving

What does roving mean?

roving means "travelling about without any clear destination". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roving?

roving has 2 syllables: ro-ving. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊvɪŋ/.

What is another word for roving?

Close synonyms include wandering, vagabondage, mobile, nomadic, peregrine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is roving a common word?

roving is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.