stray

stray is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
2. adjective. To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
3. adjective. Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
4. transitive verb. To cause to stray.
5. intransitive verb. Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.
6. noun. Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.
7. noun. The act of wandering or going astray.
8. noun. an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)
9. verb. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking

   "She always digresses when telling a story"

   "her mind wanders"

   Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander

10. verb. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

    "The gypsies roamed the woods"

    "roving vagabonds"

    Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander

11. verb. wander from a direct course or at random

    "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"

    "don't drift from the set course"

    Synonyms: drift, err

12. adjective. not close together in time

    "isolated instances of rebellion"

    "a few stray crumbs"

    Synonyms: isolated

13. adjective. (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home

    "a stray calf"

    "a stray dog"

Synonyms

digress, divagate, wander, cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, err, isolated

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stray:

artsy, rasty, satyr, stary, trasy, trays

Common word forms

strays, strayed, strayer, straying

Words from these letters

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