- divagating
- di·va·gate || 'daɪvəgeɪt v. stray from the main point; wander
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divagate — divagation, n. /duy veuh gayt /, v.i., divagated, divagating. 1. to wander; stray. 2. to digress in speech. [1590 1600; < L divagatus (ptp. of divagari to wander off), equiv. to di DI 2 + vag (s. of vagari to wander) + atus ATE1] * * * … Universalium
divagate — 1590s, from L. divagatus, pp. of divagari to wander about, from di(s) apart (see DIS (Cf. dis )) + vagari to wander, ramble (see VAGUE (Cf. vague)). Related: Divagated; divagating … Etymology dictionary
aberrant — adj 1. deviate, deviant, divergent, wayward, devious; erroneous, mistaken; deviating, diverging, departing, divagating, digressing, lapsing, wandering, rambling, straying, roving. 2. anomalous, anomalistic, abnormal, irregular, variable; odd,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
aberration — n 1. deviation, divergence, departure, divarication, divagation, digression, declination, declension; lapse, irregularity, incongruity; waywardness, aberrance, aberrancy; wandering, straying, rambling, deviating, diverging, departing, divagating … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
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 … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
deviation — n 1. veer, veering, curve, curving, turn, turning, swerve, swerving, bend, bending; tacking, wheeling, wheeling about, swinging about; shift, shifting, switch, switching, shunting, straying, drifting, roving, divagating; digression, digressing,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
digression — n 1. maundering, descanting, being diffuse, being episodic, rhapsodizing, waxing long winded, circumlocution, going off on or at a tangent, beating around the bush; (all of writing or speaking) deviating, divagating, deflecting, diverging,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
digressive — adj diffuse, episodic, rhapsodic, excursive, discursive, desultory, deviate, deviant, divergent, deflective; circumlocutory, circumlocutional, circum locutionary; veering, straggling; deviating, divagating, rambling, straying, wandering,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
divergence — n 1. spreading, spreading apart, coming apart, opening, opening up, radiating, flying off, divaricating, forking, parting, branching off; dividing, separating, subdividing, ramifying, disuniting, divorcing; severing, dissevering, cleaving, riving … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
divergent — adj 1. centrifugal, radial, spreading, spreading apart, coming apart, opening, opening up, radiating, flying off, divaricating, branching off; dividing, separating, subdividing, forking, parting, branching, branched, furcate, bifurcating,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
