stray

Meaning of stray

noun
  1. Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.
  2. One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
  3. The act of wandering or going astray.
  4. An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "the stray"
verb
  1. To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
  2. To wander from one's limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
  3. To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
  4. To cause to stray.
adjective
  1. Having gone astray; strayed; wandering
    The alley is full of stray cats rummaging through the garbage.
  2. In the wrong place; misplaced.
    a stray comma

Information about stray

  • The plural form of stray is: strays.
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Hyphenation of stray

stray

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • stray is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

stray synonyms

Meaning isolated:

isolated

Meaning roll:

roll, wander, swan, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond

Meaning err:

err, drift

Meaning digress:

digress, divagate, wander

Meaning :

deviate

Anagrams of stray

artsy, rasty, Satyr, satyr, stary, trasy, trays

Words that rhyme with stray

Tray, tray, subtray, DirectRay, betray, detray, icetray, prebetray, rebetray, unbetray, plugtray, ashtray, washtray, importray, portray, pourtray, preportray, astray, estray, reastray, unastray, Rattray, outray

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