流浪|るろうrurou[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbvagrancy; wandering; nomadism
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 流浪する（るろうする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 流浪します（るろうします） |
| Negative (nai) | 流浪しない（るろうしない） |
| polite (masen) | 流浪しません（るろうしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 流浪せず・流浪せぬ（るろうせず・るろうせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 流浪した（るろうした） |
| polite (mashita) | 流浪しました（るろうしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 流浪しなかった（るろうしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 流浪しませんでした（るろうしませんでした） |
| Te form | 流浪して（るろうして） |
| Potential | 流浪できる（るろうできる） |
| Passive | 流浪される（るろうされる） |
| Causative | 流浪させる（るろうさせる） |
| Causative passive | 流浪させられる（るろうさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 流浪すれば（るろうすれば） |
| tara | 流浪したら（るろうしたら） |
| Volitional | 流浪しよう（るろうしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 流浪しましょう（るろうしましょう） |
| Imperative | 流浪しろ（るろうしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym放浪ほうろうWrittenWritten register: roaming about, whether by choice or forced by circumstances, as in 「放浪の旅」.
- Synonym漂泊ひょうはくWrittenWritten and poetic: drifting from place to place like floating weeds; mostly literary, as in 「漂泊の詩人」.
- Synonym転々てんてんWrittenWritten: moving from place to place, stressing frequent changes of home or job; not necessarily homeless.
- Synonym漂浪ひょうろうWrittenWritten but rare: drifting and wandering, close in sense to 「漂泊」 yet even less common; can also mean large rolling waves.
- Related歩き回るあるきまわるNeutralEveryday neutral: walking around here and there within an area; carries no sense of having no fixed home.
- RelatedさまようNeutralNeutral: wandering with no sense of direction; also figuratively hovering on the edge of life and death.
- RelatedうろつくCasualColloquial: hanging around nearby with no clear purpose, often with a suspicious tinge, as of someone loitering.
- Related漂流ひょうりゅうWrittenWritten: drifting with the water, chiefly boats adrift at sea; also figurative for drifting through life; the word for actual drifting.
- RelatedさすらうWrittenWritten and lyrical: drifting and wandering much like 流浪, but with a more refined literary flavor.
- Relatedそぞろ歩くそぞろあるくNeutralNeutral: strolling leisurely with no set destination; no implication of rootlessness.
- RelatedぶらつくCasualColloquial: sauntering about with no particular aim; just idly hanging around.
- Related彷徨ほうこうWrittenWritten and rare: bewildered pacing and wandering, leaning toward a state of mind rather than travel.
- Related経巡るへめぐるWrittenWritten and rare: making a round of travels, journeying here and there to see places.
- Related流れ歩くながれあるくNeutralRare: drifting along from place to place as you walk; close in feel to 流浪.
- Antonym定住ていじゅうNeutralNeutral antonym: settling down in one place, the exact opposite of 流浪's rootless drifting.
- Antonym永住えいじゅうFormalFormal antonym: living permanently in one place; the opposite of 流浪's unsettled life.
Use 「流浪」 for having no fixed home and drifting from place to place, as in 「流浪の民」. For roaming about, whether by choice or necessity, pick 「放浪」; for a poetic, literary drift, 「漂泊」 or 「さすらう」; for everyday wandering, 「さまよう」. 「歩き回る」 and 「ぶらつく」 are mere moving about, not rootlessness.
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