deviating

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: de=vi=at=ing

THESAURUS

deviating

O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, assorted, at odds, at variance, backhanded, capricious, changeable, changing, choppy, circuitous, circular, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, desultory, deviant, deviative, deviatory, devious, different, differentiated, differing, digressive, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, discursive, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, errant, erratic, excursive, helical, heterogeneous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, indirect, inharmonious, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, labyrinthine, many, mazy, meandering, mercurial, motley, multifarious, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, planetary, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, ragged, rambling, rotary, rough, round, roundabout, roving, separate, separated, serpentine, several, shifting, snaky, spasmodic, spiral, sporadic, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, unconformable, undirected, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, vagrant, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, wandering, wavering, widely apart, winding, worlds apart, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

deviating

Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.