deviate

deviate is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
2. transitive verb. To cause to deviate.
3. noun. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

   Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, pervert

4. verb. turn aside; turn away from

   Synonyms: divert

5. verb. cause to turn away from a previous or expected course

   "The river was deviated to prevent flooding"

6. verb. be at variance with; be out of line with

   Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary

7. adjective. markedly different from an accepted norm

   "aberrant behavior"

   "deviant ideas"

   Synonyms: aberrant, deviant

Synonyms

degenerate, deviant, pervert, divert, depart, diverge, vary, aberrant

Common word forms

deviated, deviates, deviately, deviating

Words from these letters

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