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| Main Entry: |
stray
 [strey] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abandoned, wandering |
| Synonyms: | devious, erratic, homeless, lost, roaming, roving, vagrant |
| 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 |
Example Sentences
- My missive would be lost or tossed as a stray crank.
- The money would be better spent cleaning up stray space garbage and keep our satellites safe.
- Alas, it is also a place where petty politicians crush the joy out of life, and where the police are afraid of stray chickens.
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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