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strayadjective lacking a definite plan, purpose, or patternstray sightings of UFO's, none of which have been rigorously analyzed by scientists aimless, arbitrary, catch-as-catch-can, desultory, erratic, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, random, scattered, slapdash accidental, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, fluky(also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, unconsidered, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditatedscattershot, shotgunirregular, odd, sporadic, spotdirectionless, objectless, purposelessindiscriminate, unsystematicundirecteddisorderly, disorganizedundiscriminating, unselective methodical(also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steadyconstant, continuous, evenarranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, plannedaware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful(or wilful) strayverbto commit an offenseour straying son swears he's returned to the straight and narrow err, fall, offend, sin, transgress, trespass, wander breach, break, infringe, violatebackslide, lapsemess up break the law, fall from grace forgive, justify, pardonregret, repent, rue in the 13th century |