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deviating - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | deviate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stray from normal path |
| Synonyms: | avert, bend, contrast, deflect, depart, differ, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, err, part, shy, swerve, turn, vary, veer, wander, aberrate, angle off, bear off, bend the rules, break pattern, circumlocate, depart from, edge off, get around, go amiss, go haywire, go off on tangent, go out of control, go out of way, leave beaten path, not conform, swim against stream, take a turn, turn aside |
| Antonyms: | go straight, keep, stay |
| Main Entry: | abnormal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | different from standard or norm |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bizarre, curious, deviant, deviate, deviating, divergent, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, fantastic, funny, gross, heterodox, irregular, odd, off-color, peculiar, preternatural, queer, screwy*, strange, uncommon, unexpected, unnatural, unorthodox, unusual, weird, anomalistic, grody, heteroclite, heteromorphic, off-base, out of line, spastic |
| Notes: | abnormal means 'not normal, different from normal' while subnormal means 'below normal' |
| Antonyms: | customary, normal, standard, straight, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | centrifugal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | radiating from a central point |
| Synonyms: | deviating, divergent, eccentric, outward, radial, spiral, spreading, diffusive, diverging, efferent |
| Antonyms: | centripetal |
| Main Entry: | desultory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | random |
| Synonyms: | aimless, chance, chaotic, deviating, erratic, haphazard, rambling, unstable, orderless, unmethodical, unsystematic, without purpose |
| Main Entry: | discursive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rambling |
| Synonyms: | deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, meandering, prolix, roaming, roving, spreading, wandering |
| Main Entry: | divergent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | differing |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, antithetical, atypical, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, deviating, different, disagreeing, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, diverse, factious, irregular, off-key, opposite, separate, unequal, unlike, unnatural, untypical, variant, various, diverging, factional, poles apart, unalike, unsimilar |
| Antonyms: | agreeing, convergent, similar |
| Main Entry: | errant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; deviant |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, deviating, devious, erratic, erring, fallible, heretic, meandering, mischievous, miscreant, naughty, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, sinning, stray, straying, unorthodox, unreliable, wandering, wayward, drifting, errable, misbehaving, off straight and narrow, offending, shifting |
| Antonyms: | correct, righteous |
| Main Entry: | perverted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, evil |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, defiled, depraved, deviant, deviating, distorted, foreign, grotesque, impaired, kinky*, misguided, monstrous, queer, sick, tainted, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vitiate, wicked, abused, contorted, misused, outraged, polluted, vitiated, warped |
| Antonyms: | clean, good, healthy, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roundabout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, circuitous, circular, collateral, deviating, devious, discursive, evasive, meandering, oblique, tortuous, circumlocutory, obliquitous, periphrastic, taking the long way |
| Antonyms: | direct, honest, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | varying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | variable |
| Synonyms: | changeable, changing, deviating, flexible, inconstant, irregular, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, volatile, wavering, alternating, differing, fluctuating, shifting, waffling |
| Main Entry: | erring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mistaken |
| Synonyms: | criminal, culpable, delinquent, deviating, errant, fallible, faulty, sinful, sinning, straying, wrong, blundering, in error |
| Main Entry: | crooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent, angled |
| Synonyms: | angular, awry, bowed, circuitous, cockeyed*, crippled, curved, deformed, deviating, devious, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, indirect, irregular, kinky, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, oblique, rambling, roundabout, screwy*, serpentine, sinuous, slanted, snaky, spiral, topsy-turvy*, tortuous, twisted, uneven, winding, zigzag, agee, anfractuous, asymmetric, catawampus, contorted, curving, disfigured, incurving, knurly, not straight, out of shape, skewed, tilted, tortile, twisting, warped |
| Antonyms: | straight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | different |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dissimilar, unlike |
| Synonyms: | altered, changed, clashing, colorful, contrary, contrasting, deviating, discrepant, disparate, distant, distinct, distinctive, divergent, diverse, incomparable, inconsistent, individual, offbeat, opposed, other, otherwise, particular, peculiar, single, unequal, unrelated, variant, various, a far cry from, antithetic, at odds, at variance, contradistinct, contradistinctive, contrastive, differential, divers, incommensurable, like night and day, mismatched, mismated, poles apart, unalike, unsimilar |
| Antonyms: | alike, correspondent, homogeneous, like, resembling, same, similar |
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked; indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, bending, circuitous, confusing, deviating, errant, erratic, excursive, misleading, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, remote, removed, roundabout, serpentine, straying, tortuous, wandering, confounding, curving, detouring, digressing, digressory, diverting, flexuous, twisting |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight |
| Main Entry: | backslide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go astray |
| Synonyms: | deviate, fall from grace, lapse, relapse, revert, sin, slip, apostatize, leave the straight and narrow |
| Main Entry: | contrast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compare, differ |
| Synonyms: | balance, bracket, collate, conflict, contradict, depart, deviate, differentiate, disagree, distinguish, diverge, hang, mismatch, oppose, separate, stand out, vary, weigh, be a foil to, be contrary to, be dissimilar, be diverse, be unlike, be variable, hold a candle to, match up, set in opposition, set off, stack up against |
| Antonyms: | accord, agree, coincide, concur, conform, be alike, be equal, be similar |
| Main Entry: | curve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bending in a shape or course |
| Synonyms: | arc, arch, bend, bow, buckle, bulge, coil, concave, convex, crook, crumple, curl, deviate, divert, gyrate, hook, loop, round, skew, snake, spiral, stoop, swerve, turn, twist, veer, wind, incurve, inflect, wreathe |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | deflect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bounce off; turn aside |
| Synonyms: | avert, bend, curve, deviate, disperse, diverge, divert, fend, hook, parry, pivot, ricochet, sheer, shy, sidetrack, slip, swerve, twist, veer, wheel, whip, whirl, wind, cover up, glance off, hold off, keep off, slew, volte-face |
| Main Entry: | depart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diverge from normal, expected |
| Synonyms: | abandon, cast, desert, deviate, differ, digress, disagree, discard, dissent, forsake, ramble, reject, repudiate, stray, swerve, vary, veer, wander, excurse, turn aside |
| Antonyms: | continue, linger, stay, wait, keep to |
| Main Entry: | disagree |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be different |
| Synonyms: | clash, conflict, contradict, counter, depart, deviate, differ, discord, dissent, diverge, vary, war, be discordant, be dissimilar, disharmonize, run counter to |
| Antonyms: | agree, coincide, harmonize |
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