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What is the adjective for strays?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb stray which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

stray
  1. Having gone astray; strayed; wandering
  2. In the wrong place; misplaced.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. homeless, lost, abandoned, strayed, vagrant, wandering, unclaimed, gone astray, wayward, roaming, missing, misplaced, absent, mislaid, disappeared, forgotten, vanished, out-of-place, gone, hidden, irrecoverable, unaccounted for, invisible, long-lost, AWOL, out the window, fallen between cracks, not present, gone missing, obscured, nowhere to be found, cast away, disarranged, amiss, out of place, out of position, displaced, wrongly positioned, in the wrong position, wrongly placed, ectopic, dislocated, luxated, random, accidental, chance, freak, haphazard, odd … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “That is also when the omnipresent stray dogs are more interested in their siesta than in chasing hapless wayfarers.”
      “Harry tenderly swept stray locks of hair from Meghan's face.”
      “There had only been a handful of stray sightings in Wales, and I assumed that mine had been a one-off.”
strayed
  1. Who has lost his way.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. wandering, lost, vagrant, wayward, roaming, stray, gone astray, homeless, abandoned, unclaimed, missing, misplaced, absent, mislaid, disappeared, forgotten, vanished, out-of-place, gone, hidden, irrecoverable, unaccounted for, invisible, long-lost, AWOL, out the window, fallen between cracks, not present, gone missing, obscured, nowhere to be found, cast away, irretrievable, astray, undiscoverable, undetectable, unlocatable, disarranged, obliterated, unaccounted-for, not able to be located, unfindable, sacrificed, given up, away, withdrawn, truant, out, off, unavailable … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “John looked lost and confused as he strayed through the unfamiliar streets of the city.”
straying
  1. present participle of stray
  2. Synonyms:
      3. digressing, deviating, divagating, diverging, drifting, circumlocuting, excursing, getting sidetracked, getting off the subject, getting off the thread, getting off the point, getting off the track, going off on a tangent, going off at a tangent, veering, swerving, departing, wandering, meandering, turning aside, turning away, turning, detouring, swinging, wheeling, turning off, sheering, bending, sidetracking, moving away, branching off, slewing, parting, angling off, turning from, bearing off, taking a turn, leaving beaten path, rambling, differing, aberrating, roaming, maundering, shying, wandering away, varying, removing, derogating, straggling, abandoning … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The forward rider went by a straying path, moving behind outcroppings and leaning thunderheads of rock.”
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