Word Meanings - DEVIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way. 2. Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step. Syn. -- Wandering; roving; rambling; vagrant. -- De"vi*ous*ly,

Additional info about word: DEVIOUS

1. Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way. 2. Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step. Syn. -- Wandering; roving; rambling; vagrant. -- De"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- De"vi*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEVIOUS)

• Aberrant
• Erratic
• devious
• divergent
• incontinuous
• desultory
• disconnected
• wandering
• idiotic
• inconsistent
• inconsecutive
• abnormal
• exceptional
• Abnormal
• Irregular
• erratic
• peculiar
• unusual
• monstrous
• aberrant
• eccentric
• strange
• Circuitous
• Indirect
• tortuous
• serpentine
• round about
• sinuous
• winding
• Tortuous
• Devious
• circuitous
• anfractuous
• ambiguous
• complicated
• deceitful
• crooked
• twisting
• indirect
• sinister
• indexed

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