Straying Synonyms and Antonyms

To turn away from a prescribed course of action or conduct
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. departing
  2. erring
  3. veering
  4. swerving
  5. diverging
  6. digressing
  7. deviating
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. roving
  2. roaming
  3. wandering
  4. ranging
  5. rambling
  6. deviate
  7. digress
  8. divagate
  9. deviating
  10. divaricate
  11. lag
  12. meander
  13. straggle
  14. drifting
  15. meandering
  16. stray
  17. swerving
  18. veering
  19. traipsing
  20. erring
  21. straggling
  22. sinning
  23. casting
  24. lagging
  25. tramping
  26. gallivanting
  27. gadding
  28. digressing
  29. rolling
Antonyms:
  1. remaining
  2. staying
Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wandering
  2. divagating
  3. rambling
  4. digressing
  5. diverging
  6. deviating
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. aberrant
  2. aberrational
  3. aberrative
  4. errant
  5. straying

Words Related to Straying

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.

Straying Sentence Examples

  • Grass had already begun to grow on the garden paths, and horses and calves were straying in the English park.

  • As a native of Hesse-Darmstadt he ought, according to the academical rules of the time, to have studied and graduated at the university of Giessen, and it was only through the influence of Humboldt that the authorities forgave him for straying to the foreign university of Erlangen.

  • His thoughts kept straying to a certain pink-haired woman whose scent on his skin was driving him crazy.

  • The ordinary pelican, the Onocrotalus of the ancients, to whom it was well known, and the Pelecanus onocrotalus of ornithologists, is a very abundant bird in some districts of south-eastern Europe, south-western Asia and north-eastern Africa, occasionally straying, it is believed, into the northern parts of Germany and France; but the possibility of such wanderers having escaped from confinement is always to be regarded,' since few zoological gardens are without examples.

  • This species occurs on the British coasts (very seldom straying inland) all the year round; but there is some reason to think that those we have in winter are natives of more northern latitudes, while our homebred birds leave us.

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