| Main Entry: | stray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abandoned, wandering |
Synonyms: |
devious, erratic, homeless, lost, roaming, roving, vagrant |
| Main Entry: | stray |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deviate, err |
Synonyms: |
circumlocute, depart, digress, divagate, diverge, do wrong, excurse, get off the subject, get off the track, get sidetracked, go off on a tangent, ramble, sin, wander |
Antonyms: |
remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | stray |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander; get lost |
Synonyms: |
be abandoned, be lost, deviate, drift, err, gad, gallivant, go all over the map, go amiss, go astray, lose one's way, meander, ramble, range, roam, rove, straggle, swerve, traipse, turn, wander away, wander off |
Antonyms: |
go direct |
| Main Entry: | aimless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having no goal |
Synonyms: |
accidental, any which way, bits-and-pieces, blind, capricious, careless, casual, chance, desultory, directionless, drifting, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fits and starts, flighty, fortuitous, frivolous, goalless, haphazard, heedless, hit-or-miss, indecisive, indiscriminate, irresolute, objectless, pointless, purposeless, random, shiftless, stray, thoughtless, unavailing, undirected, unguided, unplanned, unpredictable, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wayward |
Antonyms: |
determined, directed, goal-oriented, motivated, pointed, purposeful, resolute |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate being; mammal |
Synonyms: |
beast, being, brute, bum*, creature, critter, invertebrate, living thing, mutt, pet, stray, varmint, vertebrate, wild thing |
Antonyms: |
mineral, plant |
| Main Entry: | cattle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bovine animals |
Synonyms: |
beasts, bovid mammals, bulls, calves, cows, dogies, herd, livestock, longhorn, moo cows, oxen, shorthorns, stock, strays |
| Main Entry: | depart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diverge from normal, expected |
Synonyms: |
abandon, cast, desert, deviate, differ, digress, disagree, discard, dissent, excurse, forsake, ramble, reject, repudiate, stray, swerve, turn aside, vary, veer, wander |
Antonyms: |
continue, keep to, linger, stay, wait |
| Main Entry: | diverge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go in different directions |
Synonyms: |
bend, bifurcate, branch, branch off, depart, deviate, digress, divagate, divaricate, divide, excurse, fork, part, radiate, ramble, separate, split, spread, stray, swerve, veer, wander |
Antonyms: |
agree, converge, join, parallel |
| Main Entry: | diverge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be different from; be at odds |
Synonyms: |
argue, conflict, contrast, depart, deviate, differ, digress, disagree, disapprove, dissent, oppose, stray, swerve, turn aside, vary, wander |
Antonyms: |
agree, concur |
| Main Entry: | dog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | canine mammal |
Synonyms: |
bitch, bowwow, cur, doggy, fido, flea bag, hound, man's best friend, mongrel, mutt, pooch, pup, puppy, stray, tail-wagger, tyke |