Deviate

Quick meaning: Deviate is a verb meaning (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

Meaning

(intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, figurative) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
2. (transitive) To cause to diverge.
3. (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
4. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
5. (sociology) deviant

Example Sentences

His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.

[…] The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially […]

Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.

It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130 […]

Word Forms

• deviates
• deviating
• deviated

Synonyms for deviate

Depending on context, synonyms include swerve, veer, stray, wander, deviant, degenerate.

Antonyms for deviate

Common opposites include conform.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deviant, pervert, degenerate, divert, deflect, diverge.

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