Astray

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Astray \A*stray"\, adv. & a. [See {Estray}, {Stray}.]
     Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative
     sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.
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           Ye were as sheep going astray.           --1 Pet. ii.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  astray
       adv 1: away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray"
       2: far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the
          mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander" [syn:
           {wide}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "astray":
     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