Deviates Synonyms and Antonyms

To change the direction or course of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. veers
  2. turns
  3. swings
  4. shifts
  5. pivots
  6. diverts
  7. deflects
  8. averts
Turn aside; turn away from
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. veers
  2. swerves
  3. diverges
  4. errs
  5. strays
  6. varies
  7. wanders
  8. digresses
  9. warps
  10. diverts
  11. departs
  12. sidetracks
  13. sheers
  14. meanders
  15. lapses
  16. deflects
  17. drifts
  18. shies
  19. detours
  20. changes
Antonyms:
  1. conforms
  2. stays
  3. keeps
  4. continues
To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wanders
  2. strays
  3. rambles
  4. diverges
  5. digresses
A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. perverts
  2. deviants
To depart, as from a norm, purpose, or subject; differ or stray.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swerves

Words Related to Deviates

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Deviates Sentence Examples

  • The plan is curious, and deviates much from the ordinary type; the internal arrangements are adapted for the performance of the peculiar rites of this deity.

  • Hence if the earths axis of rotation deviates slightly from the axis of figure, it should describe a cone about the latter in 320 sidereal days.

  • The text of Lamentations, however, so often deviates from it, that we can only affirm the tendency of the poet to cast his couplets into this type (Driver).

  • Owing to the action of the moon on the earth, as it performs its monthly revolution in an orbit slightly inclined to the ecliptic, the centre of the earth itself deviates from the plane of the ecliptic in a period equal to that of the nodal revolution of the moon.

  • Owing to the action of the planets, especially Venus and Jupiter, on the earth, the centre of gravity of the earth and moon deviates by a yet minuter amount, generally one or two tenths of a second, from the plane of the ecliptic proper.

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