stray

v

1. wander, roam, meander, straggle, ramble, rove; range, nomadize, drift, live like a gypsy; stroll, amble, Inf. mosey, saunter, prowl; peregrinate, travel about, traverse.

2. deviate, go off course, swerve, veer, sheer, go astray; err, sin, transgress, go down the garden path or primrose path, take the path of least resistance.

3. digress, divagate, go off on a tangent, get off the subject or track, forget oneself, forget what one is talking about, get lost, lose oneself.

n

4. homeless or friendless animal, homeless or friendless person, waif, Brit. wastrel, foundling, orphan; poor little lamb, little black sheep, Southwestern U.S. maverick, Western U.S. dogie, range horse; cowboy, lonesome cowboy; migrant worker, Inf. Okie; nomad, Kuchi, Bedouin, gypsy, vagabond, hobo, knight of the road, tramp; ski bum, beachcomber, bird of passage.

5. renegade, apostate, deserter, runaway, fugitive, backslider.

adj

6. lost, gone astray, abandoned, deserted, derelict, unclaimed; vagrant, vagabond, wandering, vagarious, roaming.

7. incidental, occasional, random, chance, wanton, accidental; separate, apart, unconnected, isolated, single, singular; unexpected, unanticipated, aberrant, freak, odd, out of the way, capricious