astray
Wandering from path
Astray means off the right path or course.
Something that goes astray gets lost or misdirected: The package went astray in the mail.
The word often carries moral weight—to lead someone astray is to tempt them toward wrongdoing or error: Bad company led him astray.
Astray usually functions as an adverb or predicate adjective, rarely appearing before a noun.
Lacking sense of direction
- adriftFloating without control
- strandedLeft without means to leave
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- off-courseDeviating from intended path
misdirected · wayward · directionless · marooned · bewildered · confused · aimless · drifting
Stubbornly self-willed
- errantDeviating from proper course
- sinfulViolating moral law
- fallenHaving dropped down
- corruptedMade impure or dishonest
deviant · transgressing · lapsed · backsliding · tempted · gone wrong · erring · trespassing
Misled into false belief
- hoodwinkedTricked into believing falsely
- bamboozledThoroughly deceived or confused
- dupedDeceived into believing
- misinformedGiven incorrect facts
deluded · beguiled · fooled · tricked · conned · manipulated · seduced · tempted
Incorrectly understood or believed
- wrongContrary to fact
- incorrectNot accurate or true
- off-targetMissing the intended mark
- wide of the markMissing the intended target
amiss · awry · off-base · erroneous · inaccurate · miscalculated · misjudged · bungled
disoriented
Lacking sense of direction
- adriftFloating without control
- strandedLeft without means to leave
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
off-course · misdirected · wayward · directionless · marooned · bewildered · confused · aimless · drifting · sidetracked
wayward
Stubbornly self-willed
corrupted · deviant · transgressing · lapsed · backsliding · tempted · gone wrong · erring · trespassing · seduced
deceived
Misled into false belief
- hoodwinkedTricked into believing falsely
- bamboozledThoroughly deceived or confused
- dupedDeceived into believing
misinformed · deluded · beguiled · fooled · tricked · conned · manipulated · seduced · tempted · corrupted
mistaken
Incorrectly understood or believed
- wrongContrary to fact
- incorrectNot accurate or true
- off-targetMissing the intended mark
wide of the mark · amiss · awry · off-base · erroneous · inaccurate · miscalculated · misjudged · bungled · blundered
- Off Tracklost, detour, tangent, sidetrack, digression
- lostlost, missing, mislaid, misplaced, gone
- off targetoff target, off-target, off the mark, wide of the mark, wide
- aimlessnessaimlessness, directionless, drifting, purposelessness, wandering
- A- wordsamoral, apathy, atheist, atypical, asymmetric
- mishapsmishap, accident, mistake, blunder, error
- led astrayCaused to err
- lead astrayCause to err
- go astrayVeer from course
- gone astrayLost from proper course
- going astrayDeparting from correct path
- goes astrayDeparts from correctness