deviate

1. 1.

   a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

   Synonymspervertdeviantdegenerate

   Broaderreprobate

   Narrowerfetishistmasochistnymphomaniacpederastpedophilesadistsadomasochistsatyrsodomite

1. 1.

   markedly different from an accepted norm

   “aberrant behavior”

   “deviant ideas”

   Synonymsaberrantdeviant

   Similarabnormal

Other forms of deviate

plural

deviates·

past tense

deviated·

present participle

deviating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deviate

What does deviate mean?

deviate means "turn aside; turn away from". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deviate?

deviate has 3 syllables: de-vi-ate. The stress falls on "de". In IPA it is /ˈdiviˌeɪt/.

What is another word for deviate?

Close synonyms include divert, vary, diverge, depart, pervert. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of deviate?

The recorded antonyms are conform.

Is deviate a common word?

deviate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with deviate?

95 words rhyme with deviate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.