Astray vs Falter - What's the difference?
astray | falter |
In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.
unsteadiness.
To waver or be unsteady.
* Wiseman
(ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
* Byron
* Milton
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
* I. Taylor
To stumble.
(figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
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To hesitate in purpose or action.
* Shakespeare
To cleanse or sift, as barley.
As an adverb astray
is in a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.As a noun falter is
unsteadiness.As a verb falter is
to waver or be unsteady.astray
English
Adverb
Derived terms
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falter
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- He found his legs falter .
- And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
- With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
- Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .
- And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .
- Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
- (Halliwell)