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The synonyms of “Stray” are: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander, err, digress, divagate, wander off, go astray, get separated, deviate, get sidetracked, go off at a tangent, be unfaithful, have affairs, philander, isolated, random, chance, accidental, unexpected, casual, haphazard, homeless, lost, strayed, gone astray, homeless animal, stray cat, stray dog
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “stray” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| homeless animal | Poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in. |
| stray cat | An animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal. |
| stray dog | An animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “stray” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| be unfaithful | Have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun. |
| cast | Form by pouring e g wax or hot metal into a cast or mold. You can look at the star chart cast at somebody s birth. |
| deviate | Cause to turn away from a previous or expected course. The river was deviated to prevent flooding. |
| digress | Wander from a direct or straight course. I have digressed a little from my original plan. |
| divagate | Stray or digress. Yeats divagated into Virgil s territory only once. |
| drift | Move passively, aimlessly, or involuntarily into a certain situation or condition. Excited voices drifted down the hall. |
| err | Wander from a direct course or at random. He has erred and strayed as many of us have. |
| get separated | Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses. |
| get sidetracked | Overcome or destroy. |
| go astray | Be contained in. |
| go off at a tangent | Change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically. |
| have affairs | Have a personal or business relationship with someone. |
| philander | (of a man) readily or frequently enter into casual sexual relationships with women. Married men who philander. |
| ramble | (of a plant) put out long shoots and grow over walls or other plants. Roses climbed rambled hung over walls. |
| range | Place or arrange in a row or rows or in a specified manner. Japan ranged herself against the European nations. |
| roam | (of a person’s mind or thoughts) drift along without dwelling on anything in particular. Her eyes roamed over the chattering women. |
| roll | Move along or from side to side unsteadily or uncontrollably. The waves rolled towards the beach. |
| rove | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. The policeman s eyes roved around the pub. |
| swan | Sweep majestically. Swanning around Europe nowadays are we. |
| vagabond | Wander about as or like a vagabond. Roving vagabonds. |
| wander | To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course. Might her husband be wandering. |
| wander off | Go via an indirect route or at no set pace. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “stray” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| accidental | Not of prime or central importance. The damage might have been accidental. |
| casual | Characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility. They don t do one night stands or casual flings. |
| chance | Occurring or appearing or singled out by chance. A chance meeting. |
| gone astray | Well in the past; former. |
| haphazard | Lacking any obvious principle of organization. A most haphazard system of record keeping. |
| homeless | Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security. Charities for the homeless. |
| isolated | Not close together in time. Isolated incidents of student unrest. |
| lost | Having lost your bearings confused as to time or place or personal identity. She stood there clutching a drink feeling completely lost. |
| random | Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance. We stumbled on another live band playing at a random bar. |
| strayed | Having no home or having wandered away from home. |
| unexpected | Not expected or regarded as likely to happen. He seemed to have a knack for saying the unexpected. |
| aimlessly | Without purpose or direction. We wandered aimlessly round Venice. |
| aside | Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose. Shakespeare s use of asides and soliloquies. |
| astray | Far from the intended target. A bullet went astray and killed a bystander. |
| away | An away match or win. In front of them the land fell away to the river. |
| cast | Make a moulded object by casting metal. She had a somewhat masculine cast of countenance. |
| derail | Cause (a train or tram) to leave its tracks accidentally. The plot is seen by some as an attempt to derail the negotiations. |
| derailment | An accident in which a train runs off its track. 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. |
| digress | Leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing. Don t digress when you give a lecture. |
| digressive | Characterized by digression; tending to depart from the subject. A digressive account. |
| discursive | Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects. Students often write dull second hand discursive prose. |
| dislodge | Change place or direction. Government opponents failed to dislodge the Prime Minister. |
| divagation | A message that departs from the main subject. |
| drift | Move in an unhurried fashion. Snow drifting several feet high. |
| err | To make a mistake or be incorrect. He has erred and strayed as many of us have. |
| excursive | Tending to deviate from a course or activity; digressive. His excursive remarks. |
| gad | Wander aimlessly in search of pleasure. He had heard that I was gadding about with an airline stewardess. |
| isolated | Remote and separate physically or socially. Little isolated worlds as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm shaded well in the Sahara. |
| nomadic | Living the life of a nomad; wandering. The nomadic habits of the Bedouins. |
| ramble | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. Willy rambled on about Norman archways. |
| rambling | (of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential. A rambling six hour speech. |
| resonate | Sound with resonance. The judge s ruling resonated among many of the women. |
| roam | (of a person’s mind or thoughts) drift along without dwelling on anything in particular. He let his eyes roam her face. |
| rove | Travel constantly without a fixed destination; wander. The policeman s eyes roved around the pub. |
| scrappy | Full of fighting spirit. He had a scrappy New York temperament. |
| sidetrack | A minor path or track. The horse took a sidetrack which led uphill. |
| vagabond | Anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place. Pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea. |
| wander | An act or instance of wandering. Sometimes the gout wanders through the entire body. |
| wandering | Travelling aimlessly from place to place; itinerant. Wandering tribes. |
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