Deviating Synonyms and Antonyms

To change the direction or course of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. veering
  2. turning
  3. swinging
  4. shifting
  5. pivoting
  6. diverting
  7. deflecting
  8. averting
Turn aside; turn away from
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. veering
  2. swerving
  3. diverging
  4. erring
  5. straying
  6. change
  7. varying
  8. deviate
  9. differ
  10. divagate
  11. divaricate
  12. stray
  13. wandering
  14. turn
  15. digressing
  16. wander
  17. yaw
  18. warping
  19. diverting
  20. divagating
  21. departing
  22. sidetracking
  23. sheering
  24. meandering
  25. lapsing
  26. deflecting
  27. drifting
  28. shying
  29. detouring
  30. changing
Antonyms:
  1. conforming
  2. staying
  3. keeping
  4. continuing
To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wandering
  2. straying
  3. rambling
  4. diverging
  5. divagating
  6. digressing
To depart, as from a norm, purpose, or subject; differ or stray.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swerving
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. aberrant
  2. aberrative
  3. circuitous
  4. devious
  5. divergent
  6. excursional
  7. excursionary
  8. excursive
  9. heteroclite
  10. obliquitous
  11. parenthetical
  12. serpentine
  13. tangent
  14. tangential
  15. tortuous

Words Related to Deviating

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Deviating Sentence Examples

  • Therefore mackerel generally swim in a straightforward direction, deviating sidewards only when compelled, and rarely turning about in the same spot.

  • This was the first indication of the necessity of deviating from what had previously seemed the most natural course--a direct retreat on Nizhni-Novgorod.

  • Deviating from these standards may result in the broker losing licensing or membership.

  • And to this a religious sanction may be added, for "consciousness of a rule or guide of action, in creatures capable of considering it as given them by their Maker, not only raises immediately a sense of duty, but also a sense of security in following it, and a sense of danger in deviating from it."

  • Io area, and, without deviating from truth of projection, occupied a large space in proportion to the other kingdoms gathered round it.

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