Definitions For Stray

noun

  • An animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)
  • An animal (such as a cat or dog) that is lost or has no home
  • A person or thing that is separated from a group

verb

  • Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
  • Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
  • Wander from a direct course or at random
  • To go in a direction that is away from a group or from the place where you should be

adjective

  • Not close together in time
  • (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home

Is Strays a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
8

The word Stray is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Stray in a Sentence

  • Both of her cats were strays that she found wandering in the neighborhood.
  • The airplane strayed off course.
  • Our straying son swears he's returned to the straight and narrow
  • Stray sightings of UFO's, none of which have been rigorously analyzed by scientists

Synonyms for Stray

Antonyms for Strays

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