Astray

Definition: Astray

Astray

Adverb

1. Away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray".

2. Far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "astray" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Astray \A*stray"\, adverb & adjective. [See Estray, Stray.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Astray

Deviation

Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.

Adverb: astray from, round about, wide of the mark; to the right about; all manner of ways; circuitously.

Error

Trip, stumble; lose oneself; (uncertainty); go astray; fail; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear; (mismanage); put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one's host; take the shadow for the substance; (credulity); dream; (imagine).

In error, under an error; Noun: mistaken; Verb: tripping; Verb: out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off; astray; (at fault); on a false scent, on the wrong scent; in the wrong box, outside the ballpark; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out.

Cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile, misinform; (misteach); delude; give a false impression, give a false idea; falsify, misstate; deceive; lie.

Uncertainty

In a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze; bushed, off the track; ignorant.; afraid to say; out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift; at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus; puzzled; Verb: lost, abroad, d_sorient_; distracted, distraught.

Vice

Verb: be vicious; Adjective: sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats.

Crosswords: Astray

There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

We're doing this for peace, and basically to show that the world is, you know, going astray in its thinking. (The Rutles; writing credit: Eric Idle)

See sometimes I may go astray but he'll lead me back the right way (The Best Man I Can Be; performing artist: Ginuwine)

Forgive me if it goes astray ("1999"; performing artist: Prince)

This time I have really led myself astray (Runaway Train; performing artist: Soul Asylum)

But I let you lead me astray (WHEN THE HEARTACHE IS OVER; performing artist: Tina Turner)

Universal Ike Goes Astray (1914)

Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)

Led Astray (1909)

They Led Her Husband Astray (1900)

The Girl Who Went Astray (1900)

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Books

• Adventures of a native of Australia when astray from his ship the Barque "Lynx" (a whaler) and his consequent cruise in a boat on the ocean : a true narrative (reference)

• Astray (reference)

• Children astray (reference)

• Gone Astray and Other Papers from Household Words, 1851-59 (The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens' Journalism, Vol 3) (reference)

• Led Astray (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Astray Lamb (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Astray (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Boulatruelle, accustomed to going astray, this time made the blunder of going straight.

The devil has led you astray.

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick that you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "astray": anchor astray ♦ be led astray ♦ go astray ♦ going astray ♦ lead astray ♦ lead smb. astray ♦ leading astray ♦ led astray ♦ To get astray ♦ To lead astray ♦ wander astray. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afdwaal (aberrate, go astray, stray, stray off). (various references)

Albanian

duke humbur rrugën. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضل (err, lead astray, maunder, mislead, pervert, petering, seduce, stray), ‏ضال (aberrant, errata, erratic, lost, rogue, stray, wandering). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заблуден (misbeliever, misguided, perverted, stray, strayed). (various references)

Chinese 

走錯 (misstep), 迷路 (Strayed, straying), �" (branch in a road, diverge). (various references)

Czech

ztratit se (clear up, disappear, go, go away, lose oneself, make oneself scarce, stray), zbloudilý (stray). (various references)

Danish

vild (ferocious, savage, wild). (various references)

Dutch

afdwalen (aberrate, deviate, get off the subject, go astray, stray from one's subject, stray off, wander from one's subject), zoek geraakt document (deed gone astray, lost document), verloren stuk (deed gone astray, lost document, misplaced security), verdwalen (aberrate, go astray, lose one's way, stray off), van de weg afwýken (aberrate, go astray, stray off), opzýgaan (get off the subject, go astray, stray off), dwalen (aberrate, err, go astray, make a mistake, roam, stray off, wander). (various references)

Esperanto

forflankiĝi (go astray, stray off), flankiĝi (go astray, stray off), devojiĝi (go astray, stray off), deflankiĝi (get off the subject, go astray). (various references)

Farsi 

منحرف (Aberrant, Amiss, Awry, Deviant, Devious, Hellbent, Lost, Oblique, Perverse, Pervert, Skew), گیج (Astound, Dizzy, Giddy, Harebrained, Hazy, Stupid, Wacky), گمراه (Aberrant, Amiss, Devious, Heterodox, Perverse), سرگردان (Adrift, Discursive, Erratic, Gadabout, Rambler, Strafe, Straggle, Stray, Wanderer), بیراه (Aberrant). (various references)

Finnish

harhaan, eksyksissä, eksyksiin. (various references)

French

égaré. (various references)

Frisian

ôfdwale (aberrate, go astray, stray from one's subject, stray off, wander from one's subject). (various references)

German

verloren (doomed, forlorn, gone, irrecoverable, irredeemable, lost, prodigal, vain, wasted). (various references)

Greek 

έξω τησ οδού, περιπλανώμενοσ (rambler, roamer, stray, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), παραστρατημένοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

שלא ב�"רך �"ישר. (various references)

Hungarian

téves irányban, téves irányba. (various references)

Indonesian

tersesat (misguided). (various references)

Italian

fuori strada. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

欺き惑わす (to deceive and lead astray). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たの�'�"にまどわされる (to be led astray by others opinion), それる (to get lost, to go astray, to strayfrom subject), まどわせる (to lead astray), まよい�"む (to go astray, to lose one's way), ふみまよう (to go astray, to lose one's way), いきちがい (crossing without meeting, disagreement, estrangement, going astray, misunderstanding), あくのみちへいざなう (to lead astray, to lure a person to evil ways), あざむきまどわす (to deceive and lead astray), ゆきちがい (crossing without meeting, disagreement, estrangement, going astray, misunderstanding), はぐれる (to get lost, to go astray, to strayfrom subject). (various references)

Manx

er shaghryn (adrift, betrayed, bewildered, deviating, erring, erroneous, lost, stray). (various references)

Maya

ka'a-xikin-thant (to lead astray). (various references)

Norwegian

på villspor. (various references)

Pig Latin

astrayay

Portuguese

seguir mau caminho, perder-se (disappear, go astray, lose the day, miscarry, straggle, stray, wander), extraviar-se (go astray, leave out, miscarry, straggle, stray), desnortear-se. (various references)

Romanian

anapoda (wrongheaded), razna, greşit (abroad, Amiss, awry, bad, badly, erroneous, erroneously, fallacious, false, faultily, faulty, incorrect, misled, mistaken, out of square, perverse, spurious, unfair, unjust, unlawful, vicious, wrong, wrongheaded). (various references)

Russian 

заблудиться (go astray, lose bearings, lose oneself, wander). (various references)

Scottish

seachran (going astray : air seachran, wandering), seabhaid (an error, error, going astray, wandering). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zalutao (lost, stray, strayed). (various references)

Spanish

por mal camino, perdido (abandoned, disappointed, forgiven, gotten lost, idle, irreparable, lost, missing, tainted), descarriado (bewildered). (various references)

Swedish

vilse (get lost, lost). (various references)

Thai

พลั�", อย่างหลงผิ�". (various references)

Turkish

yanlış yola sapmış (quite afield), kötü yola düşmüş (fallen), baştan çıkmış (depraved). (various references)

Ukrainian

ввести в оману (lead astray), збитися з дороги (go astray), збити з дороги (lead astray). (various references)

Welsh

ar gyfeiliorn, ar grwydr, ar ddisberod (wandering). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Astray" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achray, altray, Anstry, Asataryan, asta, Astar, Astarac, astr, astra, Astrac, Astraea, astrain, astria, astrin, Astrov, ataraxy, Athay, atrey, austrai, dastra, estray, fastrac, Fastrak, fastrax, kastrou, Ostra, ostrey, sarty, Sastry, satay, satrai, satway. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: artsy, rayas, satay, satyr, stray, trays.

-2 letters: arts, arty, rats, raya, rays, ryas, star, stay, tars, tray, tsar.

-3 letters: aas, ars, art, ays, ras, rat, ray, rya, sat, say, sty, tar, tas, try, yar.

-4 letters: aa, ar, as, at, ay, ta, ya.

+1 letter: ashtray, astylar, barytas, daystar, satrapy, yantras.

+2 letters: ashtrays, astrally, bastardy, daystars, salutary, sanitary, stairway, stannary, statuary, tanyards, tramways.

+3 letters: acrylates, arythmias, bastardly, betrayals, boatyards, calyptras, caryatids, dastardly, kalyptras, paymaster, peasantry, rascality, saltatory, sanctuary, stairways, taxpayers, tearaways, trackways, trainways, waterways.

+4 letters: abstractly, accusatory, caryatides, castratory, catalyzers, daytraders, dysarthria, escalatory, insanitary, magistracy, paralytics, partisanly, pastorally, paymasters, pleasantry, portrayals, ratepayers, salutarily, salutatory, sanitarily, satyagraha, satyriases, satyriasis, separately, stalwartly, standardly, stationary, throwaways, thysanuran, unsanitary, yardmaster.