straying

Main Entry:
wander [won-der]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: digress; get lost
Synonyms: babble, depart, deviate, divagate, diverge, err, get off the track, get sidetracked, go astray, go off on a tangent, lose one's way, lose train of thought, ramble, rave, shift, stray, swerve, talk nonsense, veer
Antonyms: go direct, stay
Main Entry: rove
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: wander
Synonyms: drift, gad, gallivant, meander, move, prowl, ramble, range, roam, straggle, stray, stroll
Main Entry: maunder
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: wander
Synonyms: babble, blather, drift, drivel, mumble, mutter, ramble, stray
Notes: maunder means to talk incoherently or to speak in a rambling manner or to wander aimlessly or confusedly; meander means to wind or turn in a course or to move in a leisurely way
Main Entry: apostatize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: defect
Synonyms: abandon, break faith, change sides, desert, fall away from, reject, renounce, sell out, stray, tergiversate
Main Entry: peregrinate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: rove
Synonyms: drift, float*, gad, gallivant, meander, move, ramble, range, roam, stray, traipse, travel, wander
Related Words
Main Entry: aberration
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
aberrant, abnormal, abnormous, absonant, ambagious, amorphous, amphibious, androgynal, androgynous, anomalistic, anomalous, arbitrary, azygous, circuitous, crablike, curious, denaturalized, desultory, deviating, devious, diffluent, discursive, eccentric, egregious, epicene, errabund, errant, erratic, exceptional, exclusive, excursive, exotic, extraordinary, fantastic, farblondzhet, grotesque, heteroclite, heterogeneous, hybrid, hypotypic, indirect, informal, irregular, lawless, misplaced, mongrel, monstrous, non-union, nondescript, noteworthy, odd, original, outlandish, peculiar, preternatural, quaint, qualified, queer, rambling, rare, remarkable, singular, strange, stray, unaccountable, unaccustomed, uncommon, unconformable, unconventional, uncustomary, undescribed, undirected, unexampled, unusual, unwonted, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wonderful, zigzag
Main Entry: departure
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
abducent, abductive, apopemptic, departing, dimissory, effused, fled, nidifugous, outgoing, outward bound, rebarbative, repellent, repelling, repulsive, stolen away, valedictory
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Initial motion from] Departure.
Category: 4. Motion with reference to direction
Synonyms:
-nouns
departure, decession, decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit (egress); exodus, hejira, flight., leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista; stirrup cup; valedictorian., starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation.
-verbs
depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from., leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose [U.S.]; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail, put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get underway, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say goodbye, bid goodbye; disappear; abscond (avoid); entrain; inspan.
-adjectives
departing; valedictory; outward bound.
-adverbs
whence, hence, thence; with a foot in the stirrup; on the wing, on the move.
Antonyms: arrival
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Repeated and protracted sounds] Roll.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; specific sounds
Synonyms:
-nouns
roll; drumming; berloque, bombination, rumbling; tattoo; dingdong; tantara; rataplan; whirr; ratatat; rubadub; pitapat; quaver, clutter, charivari, racket; cuckoo; repetition; peal of bells, devil's tattoo; reverberation.
-verbs
roll, drum, rumble, rattle, clatter, patter, clack; bombinate., hum, trill, shake; chime, peal, toll; tick, beat., drum in the ear, din in the ear.
-adjectives
rolling; monotonous (repeated); like a bee in a bottle.
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