- Types Of Speech
- You can use devious as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Devious
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 7 letters with the letters d, e, i, o, s, u, and v, 3 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter i. Devious starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, de, dev, devi, devio, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, ious, vious, ..
- Definition
- Deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"
- School Grade
- Devious is set as a sat word that starts with d, ends with s, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 7 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is devious a scrabble word? A 11 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Devious in Pig Latin is said as "eviousday or eviousdway".
- Unigram
- d | e | v | i | o | u | s
- Bigram
- de | ev | vi | io | ou | us
- Trigram
- dev | evi | vio | iou | ous
- Quadrigram
- devi | evio | viou | ious
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- deviating from a straight course;
"a scenic but devious route";
"a long and circuitous journey by train and boat";
"a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic" - indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way;
misleading;
"used devious means to achieve success";
"gave oblique answers to direct questions";
"oblique political maneuvers" - characterized by insincerity or deceit;
evasive;
"a devious character";
"shifty eyes"
Synonym | Definition |
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Aberrant | one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group |
Aberrative | |
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Aimless | aimlessly drifting |
Alley Cat | |
Ambagious | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression" "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meaning |
Ambidextrous | marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill "a double-dealing double agent" "a double-faced infernal traitor and |
Amoral | without moral standards or principles "a completely amoral person" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Devious
Anagram | Definition |
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Devious | deviating from a straight course "a scenic but devious route" "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat" "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic" |
View English words with the unique letters used in devious. Words With The Letters Deiosuv
Similar Word | Definition |
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Indirect | not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "must take an indirect couse in sailing" |
Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
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Devious (7 letters) | 11 | 13 | devious |
Devious Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters