straying

straying
Synonyms and related words:
Wanderjahr, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, abnormal, abroad, adrift, afoot and lighthearted, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bend, beside the mark, bias, branching off, bumming, circuitousness, circumforaneous, corner, corrupt, crook, curve, deceptive, declination, defective, delusive, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviation, deviational, deviative, deviousness, different, digression, discursion, discursive, distorted, divagation, divagatory, divarication, divergence, divergent, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, eccentric, errant, errantry, erratic, erring, erroneous, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fallacious, FALSE, faultful, faulty, flawed, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, formless, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hairpin, heretical, heteroclite, heterodox, heteromorphic, hoboism, illogical, illusory, indirection, irregular, itineracy, itinerancy, landloping, meandering, migrational, migratory, nomad, nomadic, nomadism, not right, not true, obliquity, off, off the track, out, peccant, peregrination, pererration, perverse, perverted, ramble, rambling, ranging, roam, roaming, rove, roving, self-contradictory, shapeless, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, straggling, stray, strolling, subnormal, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, turn, turning, twist, unfactual, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, untrue, vagabond, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, vagrant, variation, veer, wandering, wanderlust, warp, wayfaring, wide, wrong, yaw, zigzag

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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