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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deviate \De"vi*ate\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Deviated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deviating}.] [L. deviare to deviate; de + viare to go, travel, via way. See {Viaduct}.] To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. --Pope.
Syn: To swerve; stray; wander; digress; depart; deflect; err.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "deviating": O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, assorted, at odds, at variance, backhanded, capricious, changeable, changing, choppy, circuitous, circular, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, desultory, deviant, deviative, deviatory, devious, different, differentiated, differing, digressive, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, discursive, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, errant, erratic, excursive, helical, heterogeneous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, indirect, inharmonious, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, labyrinthine, many, mazy, meandering, mercurial, motley, multifarious, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, planetary, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, ragged, rambling, rotary, rough, round, roundabout, roving, separate, separated, serpentine, several, shifting, snaky, spasmodic, spiral, sporadic, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, unconformable, undirected, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, vagrant, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, wandering, wavering, widely apart, winding, worlds apart, zigzag
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