All deviate synonyms
de·vi·ate
D d verb deviate
- vary — to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance: to vary one's methods.
- differ — to be unlike, dissimilar, or distinct in nature or qualities (often followed by from): The two writers differ greatly in their perceptions of the world. Each writer's style differs from that of another.
- depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- veer — to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
- diverge — to move, lie, or extend in different directions from a common point; branch off.
- swerve — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- avert — If you avert something unpleasant, you prevent it from happening.
- shy — bashful; retiring.
- drift — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- deflect — If you deflect something that is moving, you make it go in a slightly different direction, for example by hitting or blocking it.
- divagate — to wander; stray.
- turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- digress — to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
- part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
- wander — to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray: to wander over the earth.
- contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
- bear off — (of a vessel) to avoid hitting an obstacle, another vessel, etc, by swerving onto a different course
- bend the rules — to ignore rules or change them to suit one's own convenience
- get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- go haywire — to behave or perform erratically
- stray — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- aberrate — to deviate from what is normal or correct
- turn off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
adjective deviate
- grody — repulsive; disgusting; nauseating.
- off-base — located outside the perimeters of a military base: off-base housing for officers.
- heteroclite — irregular or abnormal; anomalous.
- abnormal — Someone or something that is abnormal is unusual, especially in a way that is worrying.
- perverted — Pathology. changed to or being of an unnatural or abnormal kind: a perverted interest in death.
- out of one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- off one's head — If you say that someone is off their head, you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous.
- out of line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- delirious — Someone who is delirious is unable to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way, usually because they are very ill and have a fever.
- spastic — Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm.
- heteromorphic — Biology. dissimilar in shape, structure, or magnitude.