Word Meanings - DEFLECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected. Sitting with their knees deflected under them. Lord .

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFLECT)

• Bend
• Curve
• deviate
• incline
• tend
• swerve
• diverge
• mold
• persuade
• influence
• bias
• dispose
• direct
• lower
• subordinate to
• lean
• deflect
• bow
• condescend
• yield
• stoop
• submit
• Deviate
• Digress
• wander
• err
• sway
• depart
• divaricate
• Divert
• Alter
• change
• alienate
• delight
• please
• gratify
• entertain
• amuse
• Turn
• Round
• shape
• adapt
• spin
• reverse
• alter
• transform
• convert
• metamorphose
• revolve
• rotate
• hinge
• depend
• decline

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEFLECT)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate
• Order
• arrange
• place
• collocate
• range
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to DEFLECT)

• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• METAMORPHOSE
  To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.