Synonyms of the word deviate


DEVIATEABERRANT - ABNORMAL - DEGENERATE - DEPART - DEVIANT - DIFFER - DIVERGE - DIVERT - MISCREANT - PERVERT - REPROBATE - TURN - VARY

deviate

  • n. (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
  • n. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic…
  • v. (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

aberrant

  • adj. Differing from the norm.
  • adj. (sometimes figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
  • adj. (botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
  • n. A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
  • n. (biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with…

abnormal

  • adj. Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social…
  • n. A person or object that is not normal.

degenerate

  • adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to…
  • adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
  • adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
  • adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as…
  • adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
  • n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
  • v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

depart

  • v. (intransitive) To leave.
  • v. (intransitive) To set out on a journey.
  • v. (intransitive) To die.
  • v. (intransitive) To deviate (from).
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To go away from; to leave.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.
  • n. (obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances.
  • n. (obsolete) A going away; departure.

deviant

  • adj. Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
  • n. A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
  • n. A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.

differ

  • v. Not to have the same traits, characteristics.
  • v. (people, groups, etc.) To have diverging opinions, disagree.

diverge

  • v. (intransitive, literally of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart;…
  • v. (intransitive, literally of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another…
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively, of an interest, opinion, or anything else) To become different, to separate…
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or…

divert

  • v. (transitive) To turn aside from a course.
  • v. (transitive) To distract.
  • v. (transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn aside; to digress.

miscreant

  • adj. Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
  • adj. (theology) Holding an incorrect religious belief.
  • n. One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
  • n. One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.
  • n. (theology) One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.

pervert

  • n. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense…
  • n. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
  • v. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
  • v. (transitive) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to…
  • v. To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

reprobate

  • adj. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
  • adj. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
  • adj. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
  • n. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
  • n. An individual with low morals or principles.
  • v. To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
  • v. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
  • v. To refuse, set aside.

turn

  • v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
  • v. (archaic) To translate.
  • n. A change of direction or orientation.
  • n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
  • n. A single loop of a coil.
  • n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  • n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
  • n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
  • n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
  • n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
  • n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
  • n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
  • n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
  • n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. A deed done to another.
  • n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
  • n. Character; personality; nature.
  • n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

vary

  • v. (transitive) To change with time or a similar parameter.
  • v. (transitive) To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
  • v. (intransitive) Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
  • v. (of the members of a group, intransitive) To display differences.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or act different from the usual.
  • v. (transitive) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
  • v. (transitive, music) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key,…
  • v. (obsolete) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
  • n. (obsolete) alteration; change.

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