| disoriented | | |
| adj. | 1. confused, disoriented, lost | having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity.; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented" |
| ~ unoriented | not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained.; "engaged in unoriented study"; "unoriented until she looked at the map" |
| adj. | 2. alienated, anomic, disoriented | socially disoriented.; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people" |
| ~ unoriented | not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained.; "engaged in unoriented study"; "unoriented until she looked at the map" |
| stray | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. stray | an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal). |
| ~ domestic animal, domesticated animal | any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment. |
| v. (motion) | 2. cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander | move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ maunder | wander aimlessly. |
| ~ gad, gallivant, jazz around | wander aimlessly in search of pleasure. |
| ~ drift, err, stray | wander from a direct course or at random.; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" |
| ~ wander | go via an indirect route or at no set pace.; "After dinner, we wandered into town" |
| v. (motion) | 3. drift, err, stray | wander from a direct course or at random.; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ roam, rove, stray, vagabond, wander, ramble, range, swan, drift, tramp, cast, roll | move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" |
| v. (communication) | 4. digress, divagate, stray, wander | lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking.; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" |
| ~ tell | let something be known.; "Tell them that you will be late" |
| adj. | 5. isolated, stray | not close together in time.; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs" |
| ~ sporadic | recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances.; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids" |
| adj. | 6. stray | (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home.; "a stray calf"; "a stray dog" |
| ~ lost | no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered.; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities" |
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