nomadic

[ noh-mad-ik ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads.

Other Words From

• no·madi·cal·ly adverb
• nonno·madic adjective
• nonno·madi·cal·ly adverb
• semi·no·madic adjective
• semi·no·madi·cal·ly adverb
• unno·madic adjective
• unno·madi·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of nomadic¹

From the Greek word nomadikós, dating back to 1810–20. See nomad, -ic

Example Sentences

For example, while working in Nigeria, he and his colleagues made progress with nomadic populations.

From Science News

If you’re nomadic, you can pick up and move into unoccupied space and get away from those who threaten you.

From Nautilus

The novel is told from the perspectives of former home designer Bea and her young daughter, Agnes, who are among the few selected to live an experimentally nomadic life in one of the world’s last natural places, known as the Wilderness State.

From Outside Online

One big hoax was that because Mongolians eat very healthily and live in traditional nomadic lifestyles, we would not get the virus and had a “natural immunity.”

From MIT Technology Review

Today, even the majority of herders and nomadic people have satellite TV with solar energy, so they can still access information.

From MIT Technology Review

So, he approached his nomadic friends to gauge their interest in the collaboration.

From The Daily Beast

Some, like Pete, who McKell has become quite close with, have migrated to and from other types of nomadic communities.

From The Daily Beast

One theory holds that Gedi was deserted to avoid the advancing nomadic Galla tribe coming from Somalia.

From The Daily Beast

In reality, the Iraqi borders had been arbitrarily drawn and disregarded 2,000 years of tribal, sectarian, and nomadic occupation.

From The Daily Beast

Often, segregation is blamed on the Roma themselves, whom many accuse of not wanting to integrate due to a “nomadic culture.”

From The Daily Beast

Different tribes occupied different centres and were nomadic according to the season of the year.

From Project Gutenberg

The chief told me the tribes were nomadic, and never slept two nights in the same place.

From Project Gutenberg

By this process, then, we learn that the Aryans were a nomadic people, and had made some advance in civilization.

From Project Gutenberg

They have nomadic tendencies; and, in their uncivilised state, scarcely practise agriculture.

From Project Gutenberg

Varna is such a town as only could have been devised by a nomadic race aping the habits of civilized nations.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• pastoral
• peripatetic
• wandering