Afield

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  • adverb. Off the usual or desired track.
  • adverb. Away from one's home or usual environment.
  • adverb. To or on a field.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In or to the field or fields: as, “we drove a field,” Milton, Lycidas, l. 27; “Æneas is a field,”
  • Abroad; off the beaten path; far and wide.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. To, in, or on the field.
  • adverb. Out of the way; astray.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adverb. Digressing from the topic at hand.
  • adverb. On the field.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adverb. far away from home or one's usual surroundings
  • adverb. off the subject; beyond the point at issue
  • adverb. in or into a field (especially a field of battle)
  • Word Usage
    "Law schools do tolerate some non-PC thinking, but not anything to far afield from the orthodoxy."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    astray