deviate

deviate
v
1. veer, straggle, turn aside; wander, ramble, meander, stray, drift, rove, divagate, Scot, and North Eng. sklent; err, miss, go astray, lose one's way.
2. depart, diverge, deflect, vary, differ, change, step aside, steer clear of; curve, turn, bend, swerve, tack, slue, slew, yaw, bear off, wheel, wheel about, swing about; shy, back off, Chiefly Brit. jib; sidle, edge.
3. digress, maunder, descant, be diffuse, rhapsodize, wax longwinded, go off on or at a tangent, beat around the bush.
4. divert, sidetrack, shift, switch, shunt.
adj
5. aberrant, deviant, divergent, errant, heretical, heterodox, wayward, devious; unacceptable, out of line, out of hand; erroneous, mistaken; deviating, diverging, divagating, departing, digressing, lapsing, wandering, rambling, drifting, straying, roving.
6. anomalous, anomalistic, abnormal, irregular, variable; odd, peculiar, curious, queer, strange, bizarre, weird, freakish; eccentric, idiosyncratic, Inf. quirky; unconventional, uncommon, unusual, offbeat, out of the ordinary, singular, exceptional, individual, individualistic, unorthodox; monstrous, unnatural, heteroclite, heteromorphic, heteromorphous, malformed, deformed, misshapen, misshaped, miscreated; epicene, androgynous, hermaphroditic, hermaphroditical, transsexual.
7. perverse, perverted, corrupt, corrupted, twisted, Inf. kinky; wanton, depraved, degenerate, degenerated, deteriorated, vitiated, debased, abased; licentious, lascivious, lewd, suggestive; sadistic, masochistic; homosexual, homoerotic, homophile, Inf. gay, Inf. bent, Derog. queer, lesbian, sapphic, tribadistic, Derog. butch; bisexual, bisexed, Sl. switch-hitting, Sl. hitting or swinging from both sides, Sl. ac/dc, am-phierotic; autoerotic.
n
8. anomaly, deviant, Rare. anomalism, abnormality, abnormity, irregularity, variation.
9. nonconformist, deviator, radical, heretic, Chiefly Brit. punk; misfit, maverick, drop out, loner, lone wolf, solitary, solitary man, fish out of water, square peg in a round hole; character, card, original, pip, sport, exception, individual, nonesuch, nondescript, bohemian; crank, fanatic; crazy, flake, freak, three-dollar bill, crackpot, rare bird, queer fellow, queer duck, queer potato, Inf. fruitcake, Inf. dingbat, Inf. ding-a-ling; All Sl. weirdo, weirdy, weirdie, creep, oddball, screwball, nut, loony, loner, case, geezer, kook, odd duck, squirrel.
10. homosexual, homosexualist, homophile, third sex, invert; transvestite, drag queen; All Sl. queen, gunsel, chicken, punk, limp-wrist, three-dollar bill, Brit. ginger, ginger beer, Brit. poof, Brit. poofter, All Derog. homo, queer, faggot, fag, fruit, flit, fairy, pansy, nance, auntie; bisexual, Sl. bi-guy, Sl. switch hitter; lesbian, sapphist, tribade, Sl. butch, Sl. femme, Derog. dyke, Derog. bull dyke, Archaic. fricatrice.
11.(all with reference to sexual relations) pervert, fiend, brute, deviant, degenerate, maniac, criminal, psychopath; sadist, masochist, fetishist, voyeur, scato-philiac, erotomanic, narcissist, nymphomaniac; sod-omist, sodomite, bugger; pederast, pedophiliac, catamite; coprophiliac; necrophiliac; zoophiliac.

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  • Deviate — De vi*ate, v. t. To cause to deviate. [R.] [1913 Webster] To deviate a needle. J. D. Forbes. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • deviate — de vi*ate (d[=e] v[ e]*[i^]t), n. a person having behavior differing from that which is normal or socially acceptable; used especially to characterize persons whose sexual behavior is considered morally unacceptable. Syn: deviant. [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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