veering

CIDE DICTIONARY

veering, a. 

 Shifting.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

veering

aberrant, aberrative, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, choppy, circuitous, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, eccentric, errant, erratic, excursive, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, indirect, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jerky, labyrinthine, lurching, mazy, meandering, nonuniform, out-of-the-way, patchy, planetary, rambling, rough, roving, scrappy, serpentine, shifting, snaky, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, uncertain, undirected, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, vagrant, variable, wandering, wavering, winding, wobbling, wobbly, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

veering

Regression

N regress, regression, retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction, reculade, retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration, recession, recess, crab-like motion, refluence, reflux, backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return, resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil), flip-flop, volte-face, counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march, veering, tergiversation, recidivation, backsliding, fall, deterioration, recidivism, recidivity, reversal, relapse, turning point, receding, retrograde, retrogressive, regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient, crab-like, balky, reactionary, back, backwards, reflexively, to the right about, a reculons, a rebours, revenons a nos moutons, as you were.