'astray' definitions:
Definition of 'astray'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray"
adverb
Far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander" [syn: wide, astray]
Synonyms of 'astray'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abashed,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- afield,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- askew,
- at fault,
- at sea,
- awry,
- badly,
- below the mark,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- bewildered,
- bootlessly,
- bothered,
- clear,
- clueless,
- confused,
- corrupt,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disoriented,
- distorted,
- distracted,
- distraught,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- erroneously,
- fallacious,
- fallaciously,
- false,
- falsely,
- far afield,
- far from it,
- faultful,
- faultfully,
- faultily,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- fruitlessly,
- guessing,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- in a fix,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- in vain,
- lost,
- mazed,
- mistakenly,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- peccant,
- perturbed,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- put-out,
- self-contradictory,
- straying,
- to no purpose,
- turned around,
- unfactual,
- unfavorably,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- untrue,
- untruly,
- upset,
- vainly,
- wide,
- without a clue,
- wrong,
- wrongly