Meaning of ASTRAY
Pronunciation: | | u'strey
|
|
|
WordNet Dictionary |
|
| Definition: | |
- [adv] away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray"
- [adv] far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander"
|
|
ASTRAY is a 6 letter word that starts with A. |
| Synonyms: | | wide |
| |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
|
| Definition: | | \A*stray"\, adv. & a. [See {Estray}, {Stray}.]
Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative
sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.
Ye were as sheep going astray. --1 Pet. ii.
25.
|
|
Thesaurus Terms |
|
| Related Terms: | | abashed, aberrant, abroad, adrift, afield, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, askew, at fault, at sea, awry, badly, below the mark, beside the mark, beside the point, bewildered, bootlessly, bothered, clear, clueless, confused, corrupt, deceptive, defective, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, distorted, distracted, distraught, disturbed, embarrassed, errant, erring, erroneous, erroneously, fallacious, fallaciously, false, falsely, far afield, far from it, faultful, faultfully, faultily, faulty, flawed, fruitlessly, guessing, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, in vain, lost, mazed, mistakenly, not right, not true, off, off the track, out, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, put-out, self-contradictory, straying, to no purpose, turned around, unfactual, unfavorably, unorthodox, unproved, untrue, untruly, upset, vainly, wide, without a clue, wrong, wrongly |
| |
|
|