Need another word that means the same as “digress”? Find 15 synonyms and 30 related words for “digress” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Digress” are: depart, sidetrack, straggle, divagate, stray, wander, deviate, go off at a tangent, diverge, turn aside, turn away, drift, ramble, meander, maunder
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “digress” as a verb can have the following definitions:
depart | Deviate from (an accepted, prescribed, or usual course of action. They departed for Germany. |
deviate | Turn aside; turn away from. The river was deviated to prevent flooding. |
divagate | Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking. Yeats divagated into Virgil s territory only once. |
diverge | Be at variance with; be out of line with. The flight path diverged from the original flight plan. |
drift | Be carried slowly by a current of air or water. The shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore. |
go off at a tangent | Go through in search of something; search through someone’s belongings in an unauthorized way. |
maunder | Wander aimlessly. He maunders through the bank composing his thoughts. |
meander | (of a river or road) follow a winding course. A stylish offbeat thriller which occasionally meanders. |
ramble | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. Roses climbed rambled hung over walls. |
sidetrack | Direct (a train) into a branch line or siding. The train is sidetracked on to a line leading to a terminal. |
straggle | (of an irregular group of people) move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front. The children straggled behind them. |
stray | (of the eyes or a hand) move idly or casually. The military arrested anyone who strayed into the exclusion zone. |
turn aside | Change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense. |
turn away | Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become. |
wander | Walk or move in a leisurely or aimless way. After dinner we wandered into town. |
aimlessly | Without purpose or direction. We wandered aimlessly round Venice. |
ambulate | Walk; move about. People who make use of crutches to ambulate. |
away | An away match or win. He put away the pistol. |
carriage | Any of the separate sections of a train that carry passengers. A US army howitzer and carriage. |
derail | (of a train or tram) accidentally leave the tracks. They had planned to derail the trains that carried atomic waste. |
derailment | The action of a train or tram leaving its tracks accidentally. The derailment of the peace process. |
deviate | A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior. The whole affair offers revealing insights into attitudes towards sexual deviates. |
digressive | Characterized by digression; tending to depart from the subject. A digressive allusion to the day of the week. |
discursive | (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects. A rambling discursive book. |
dislodge | Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied. Government opponents failed to dislodge the Prime Minister. |
drift | The pervading meaning or tenor. The drift towards a more repressive style of policing. |
excursive | Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects. His excursive remarks. |
gad | Wander aimlessly in search of pleasure. He had heard that I was gadding about with an airline stewardess. |
gallivant | Wander aimlessly in search of pleasure. She quit her job to go gallivanting around the globe. |
indirect | (of costs) deriving from overhead charges or subsidiary work. Fittings were installed to give a subdued indirect light in the nave. |
meandering | An act of following a winding course. A florid and rather meandering melody. |
nomadic | Migratory. The nomadic habits of the Bedouins. |
ramble | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. This novel rambles on and jogs. |
rambling | (of a plant) putting out long shoots and growing over walls or other plants. Rambling roses. |
resonate | Evoke images, memories, and emotions. The sound of the siren resonated across the harbour. |
roam | Use a mobile phone on another operator’s network, typically while abroad. The cattle roam across the prairie. |
rove | Wander over or through (a place) without a fixed destination. The policeman s eyes roved around the pub. |
scrappy | Full of fighting spirit. Scrappy lecture notes piled up unread. |
sidetrack | A short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass. The horse took a sidetrack which led uphill. |
stray | An animal that has strayed especially a domestic animal. Stray dogs. |
wander | An act or instance of wandering. The wandering Jew. |
wanderer | Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life. He is a longtime seaman a rootless wanderer. |
wandering | Of a path e.g. The river followed its wandering course. |
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