PERIPATETIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Peripatetic mean? 

• PERIPATETIC (noun)
  The noun PERIPATETIC has 2 senses:

1. a person who walks from place to place

2. a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism

  Familiarity information: PERIPATETIC used as a noun is rare.

• PERIPATETIC (adjective)
  The adjective PERIPATETIC has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy

2. traveling especially on foot

  Familiarity information: PERIPATETIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERIPATETIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who walks from place to place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("peripatetic" is a kind of...):

footer; pedestrian; walker (a person who travels by foot)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Aristotelean; Aristotelian; Peripatetic

Hypernyms ("Peripatetic" is a kind of...):

adherent; disciple (someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another)

Derivation:

peripatetic (traveling especially on foot)

peripatetic (of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy)

peripateticism ((philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science)

• PERIPATETIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Aristotelean; Aristotelian; Aristotelic; peripatetic

Context example:

Aristotelean logic

Pertainym:

Aristotle (one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC))

Derivation:

Peripatetic (a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Traveling especially on foot

Synonyms:

peripatetic; wayfaring

Context example:

a poor wayfaring stranger

Similar:

unsettled (not settled or established)

Derivation:

Peripatetic (a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism)