deviate
verb
• depart from an established course.
• "you must not deviate from the agreed route"
Similar:
diverge,
digress,
drift,
stray,
slew,
veer,
swerve,
turn away,
turn aside,
get sidetracked,
branch off,
differ,
vary,
change,
depart,
be different,
be at variance with,
run counter to,
contrast with,
contravene,
contradict,
divagate,
deviate
noun
• another term for deviant (noun).
• "the whole affair offers revealing insights into attitudes towards 'sexual deviates'"
deviate
adjective
• departing from usual or accepted standards; deviant.
• "their deviate behaviour"
Origin:
mid 16th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘remote’): from late Latin deviat- ‘turned out of the way’, from the verb deviare, from de- ‘away from’ + via ‘way’. The verb dates from the mid 17th century.