Synonyms and Antonyms of errant
- blamed the prank on errant students
defiant, disrespectful, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impolite, improper, impudent, indecorous, insolent, rude, uncouth, unmannerly
disobedient, headstrong, intractable, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, transgressing, unruly, untoward, willful (or wilful)
balky, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, wayward, wild
arch, elfish, impish, knavish, monkeying, monkeyish, ornery, pixieish, prankish, rascally, roguish, waggish
dissolute, perverse, wrongheaded
insurgent, mutinous, rebellious
disobliging, inconsiderate, selfish, thoughtless, unkind, unkindly
babyish, childish, immature, infantile, jejune, juvenile, kiddish, puerile
acquiescent, compliant, complying, dutiful, obedient, submissive
clean, correct, decent, decorous, moral, proper, respectable
considerate, courteous, kindly, mannerly, polite, thoughtful
angelic (or angelical), cherubic, divine, heavenly
amenable, docile, governable, tractable
- the errant gunslinger as a standard character in western novels
ambulant, ambulatory, fugitive, gallivanting (also galavanting), itinerant, nomad, nomadic, perambulatory, peregrine, peripatetic, ranging, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring