Afield

Word AFIELD
Character 6
Hyphenation a field
Pronunciations /əˈfiːld/

Definitions and meanings of "Afield"

What do we mean by afield?

Off the usual or desired track. adverb

Away from one's home or usual environment. adverb

To or on a field. adverb

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.

To, in, or on the field. adverb

Out of the way; astray. adverb

Digressing from the topic at hand. adverb

On the field. 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) adverb

Away (from the home or starting point, physical or conceptual); usually preceded by far (or farther, further).

On the field.

Out in the open.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Afield

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The word "afield" in example sentences

I don't know about the rest of you but the cost of going afield is as much to blame as anything. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is getting far afield from the subject of this thread, but the point is that cost-benefit considerations are not immoral. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Law schools do tolerate some non-PC thinking, but not anything to far afield from the orthodoxy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You can wind up wasting a lot of your time addressing their nonsensical points which spread farther and farther afield from the discussion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the old saying goes, the worst day afield is better than the best day at work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And again, that is afield from the narrow point you were making, that Democrats are not sympathetic to al-Qaeda. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Andy McGill: Law schools do tolerate some non-PC thinking, but not anything to far afield from the orthodoxy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pretty far afield from the topic. joe from Lowell says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though Waterloo may seem far afield from the War in ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet conservative commentators and editorialists, aided by their allies in Congress, rode that Arkansas pony until it ended far afield from a land deal with the impeachment of a president for lying about sex. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Now, the following is important so that we will not seem to be running far afield from the original subject and find this forum locked: ❋ Unknown (2003)

But the people Australia are our own people, and those underprivileged classes got the possession of the powers of government and proceeded to use them-just as the people in all ages who have the power of government to forward their own interests, to serve what they considered their own purposes; and from that fact has naturally developed all the legislative progress in Australia which has taken them so far afield from the path which had been followed by the older English-speaking nations such as England, and in some senses Canada. ❋ Unknown (1926)

You’re swooping kinda far afield from the original topic, though. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All that is far afield from the topic of the thread, but I think it’s worth noting that there is open political advocacy in the US for “communism-lite.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

For one thing, I’m not thrilled to see Foxman talking about this issue at all which seems far afield from the ADL’s mandate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“For one thing, I’m not thrilled to see Foxman talking about this issue at all which seems far afield from the ADL’s mandate …” ❋ Unknown (2009)

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