Deviant vs Astray - What's the difference?
deviant | astray |
Of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.
As an adjective deviant
is deviant.As an adverb astray is
in a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.deviant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At the trial, the extent of his deviant behavior became clear.
Noun
(en noun)- He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
- As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant .