Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Off the usual or desired track. See Synonyms at amiss.
- adv. Away from one's home or usual environment.
- adv. To or on a field.
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.
Wiktionary
- adv. Digressing from the topic at hand.
- adv. On the field.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. To, in, or on the field.
- adv. Out of the way; astray.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. far away from home or one's usual surroundings
- adv. off the subject; beyond the point at issue
- adv. in or into a field (especially a field of battle)
Etymologies
- a- + field (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Law schools do tolerate some non-PC thinking, but not anything to far afield from the orthodoxy.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
“This is getting far afield from the subject of this thread, but the point is that cost-benefit considerations are not immoral.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
“Andy McGill: Law schools do tolerate some non-PC thinking, but not anything to far afield from the orthodoxy.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
“And again, that is afield from the narrow point you were making, that Democrats are not sympathetic to al-Qaeda.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
“As the old saying goes, the worst day afield is better than the best day at work.”
“Pretty far afield from the topic. joe from Lowell says:”
“You can wind up wasting a lot of your time addressing their nonsensical points which spread farther and farther afield from the discussion.”
“I don't know about the rest of you but the cost of going afield is as much to blame as anything.”
“Though Waterloo may seem far afield from the War in”
“From reading the article, it sounds like the story line isn't too far afield from the original, which means they're re-making it, but with minimal effort.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘afield’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Because I like them: A -- B
abacinate, aberdevine, ablepsy, abuccinate, acarology, acipenserine, abactor, adamantine, addressin, aeoline, ahimsa, agelast and 151 more...
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botello360's list
ruminate, steel, bifurcation, arrivederci, portage, tactile, ruminant, rift, anecdotage, diacritic, cud, hull and 399 more...
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complicated words
mire, mirth, misapplication, reluctant, aghast, surreptitiously, wares, abashed, leap, dash, peer, tangle and 107 more...
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The Hunger Games
blather, scrounge, guffaw, wade, afield, burlap, pang, gush, assent, veer, aghast, frilly and 29 more...
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