Veering

Synonyms for "veering" (113 found)

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Closest matches (23)

Noun(9 words)

swervechange of coursecurve curving depart detour deviate deviating deviation

aberrant aberrative broken capricious careening catchy choppy circuitous deflection departing desultory deviant deviating deviative

Strong matches (34)

deviatory devious digressive disconnected discontinuous discursive double eccentric errant erratic excursive fitful flickering fluctuating gnominious guttering halting herky-jerky heteroclite immethodical

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inconstant indirect intermittent intermitting irregular

Noun(9 words)

digress digression digressivedirection shiftdirectional changediverge divergent divert drift

Related words (56)

jerky labyrinthine lurching mazy meandering nonuniformout-of-the-waypatchy planetary rambling rough roving scrappy serpentine shifting snaky snatchy spasmatic spasmic spasmodic

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Noun(9 words)

rambling shift shifting swerving turn wander wanderingwind shiftyawing

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5 relation types

More general

14 entries

change in directionchange in topicdeviatedirectional propertydiscourse qualitydiversion of attentionmotionmotion attributemoverhetorical styleturn turningweather phenomenonwind phenomenon

More specific

20 entries

bearing changebendingclockwise turningcourse adjustmentcurve curving depart digressdigressive writingdiverge driftheading changenarrative driftprocedural deviationrambling proseswerve

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Collocations

13 entries

heading veeringveering away fromveering courseveering directionveering off courseveering off topicveering pathveering tendencyveering to the leftveering to the rightveering trajectoryveering windwind veering

Inflections

5 entries

more veeringmost veeringveered veerings veers

Derivations

2 entries

veer veerings

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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I saw his car veering to the left.

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I saw his car veering to the right.

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The crash barrier prevented his car from veering off the highway.

Source: tatoeba (8977968)

Ensure that everyone involved understands the importance of not veering off-topic.

Source: tatoeba (12121178)

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