Reverse Dictionary: DEVIATE

ADJECTIVES
► ABERRANT 1. deviating widely from the ordinary or natural type, exceptional, irregular, abnormal → 1830
2. wandering away or straying from a defined path; hence, diverging or deviating from any moral standard → 1848
► PREVARICABLE capable of being deviated from; able to be circumvented → 1644 obs.
► PREVARICANT deviating from the right course; irregular, improper → 1644 obs.
► PREVARICATE deviating; perverse → 1635

NOUNS
► ABERRATION 1. a deviation or divergence from a direct, prescribed, or ordinary course of action → 1610-31
2. a wandering away; a straying; a deviation or divergence from the straight or recognized path → 1615
► DECLENSION deviation or declining from a standard; falling away from one’s allegiance, apostasy → 1594
► DECLINATION a turning aside, swerving, deviation from a standard; a falling away → 1533 obs.
► EGRESSION a deviation from accustomed rules; an outburst of feeling, poetic fervour, etc. → 1509 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► DECLINER one who deviates, or falls away from his duty or allegiance, or from an approved standard of conduct or belief → 1601 obs.

VERBS
► ABERRATE to diverge or deviate from the straight path → 1765
► DEBORD to go out of bounds, to deviate; to go beyond bounds, to go to excess → c1620 obs.
► DECLINE to turn or bend aside; to deviate; to turn away → c1325 obs.
► EXORBITATE to deviate from the usual path or course; to stray → 1600 obs.
► EXTRAVAGE to deviate in discourse from the proper subject; to digress; to talk incoherently; to ramble → c1690 obs. exc. Sc.
► FLY THE TRACK to turn from the usual or expected course → 1847 US colloq.
► PREVARICATE to deviate, to transgress; to depart from a course of action considered to be correct or right → 1582 obs.
► SKLENT to deviate from a straightforward course, or from the truth → 1581 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► YAW to deviate, to go out of course, to go or move unsteadily → 1584