Word Meanings - DEVIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope. Syn. -- To swerve; stray; wander;

Additional info about word: DEVIATE

To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope. Syn. -- To swerve; stray; wander; digress; depart; deflect; err.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEVIATE)

• Bend
• Curve
• deviate
• incline
• tend
• swerve
• diverge
• mold
• persuade
• influence
• bias
• dispose
• direct
• lower
• subordinate to
• lean
• deflect
• bow
• condescend
• yield
• stoop
• submit
• Deflect
• Turn
• divert
• recurve
• Err
• Deviate
• wander
• mistake
• blunder
• misjudge
• stumble
• stray
• go astray
• misapprehend
• Stray
• Wander
• digress
• ramble
• err
• depart
• rove
• Swerve
• divaricate
• bend
• trend

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEVIATE)

• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate
• Course
• speed
• hasten
• drive
• run

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