'Straying' definitions:
Definition of 'straying'
From: WordNet
adjective
Unable to find your way; "found the straying sheep"
Definition of 'Straying'
From: GCIDE
- Stray \Stray\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Strayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Straying.] [OF. estraier, estraer, to stray, or as adj., stray, fr. (assumed) L. stratarius roving the streets, fr. L. strata (sc. via) a paved road. See Street, and Stray, a.]
- 1. To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. [1913 Webster]
- Thames among the wanton valleys strays. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray. [1913 Webster]
- Now, until the break of day, Through this house each fairy stray. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A sheep doth very often stray. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err. [1913 Webster]
- We have erred and strayed from thy ways. --??? of Com. Prayer. [1913 Webster]
- While meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To deviate; err; swerve; rove; roam; wander. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'straying'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberrant,
- aberration,
- abnormal,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- amorphous,
- anomalistic,
- anomalous,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- bend,
- beside the mark,
- bias,
- branching off,
- bumming,
- circuitousness,
- circumforaneous,
- corner,
- corrupt,
- crook,
- curve,
- deceptive,
- declination,
- defective,
- delusive,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviant,
- deviation,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- deviousness,
- different,
- digression,
- discursion,
- discursive,
- distorted,
- divagation,
- divagatory,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- divergent,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- eccentric,
- errant,
- errantry,
- erratic,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- flitting,
- floating,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- formless,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- hairpin,
- heretical,
- heteroclite,
- heterodox,
- heteromorphic,
- hoboism,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- indirection,
- irregular,
- itineracy,
- itinerancy,
- landloping,
- meandering,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- nomadism,
- not right,
- not true,
- obliquity,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- peccant,
- peregrination,
- pererration,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- ramble,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rove,
- roving,
- self-contradictory,
- shapeless,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- skew,
- slant,
- straggling,
- stray,
- strolling,
- subnormal,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- traipsing,
- transient,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- unfactual,
- unnatural,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- untrue,
- vagabond,
- vagabondage,
- vagabondia,
- vagabondism,
- vagrancy,
- vagrant,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- Wanderjahr,
- wanderlust,
- warp,
- wayfaring,
- wide,
- wrong,
- yaw,
- zigzag