Detour and Head

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Detour

Detour verb - To avoid by going around.
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Head is an antonym for detour.

Head

Head verb - To point or turn (something) toward a target or goal.
Usage example: after a long day at the beach, we headed the car toward home
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Detour is an antonym for head.
Nearby Words: heading, headland, headship, headband, headed
Similar words of detour

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How words are described

long long detour long head
small small detour small head
actual actual detour actual head
massive massive detour massive head
Other adjectives: large.

Both words in one sentence

  • While the family in the contest makes a detour to visit the Barbie Museum, their tour guide is dressed from head to toe like a Neo Nazi, while giving a low key and professional tour.
    Source: Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind
  • Despite what must have been a considerable detour and at least a few days head-start for a ship which is expressly faster than their own, Will and Jack still arrive at Isla de Muerta within hours of the ghost pirates at most.
    Source: Traveling at the Speed of Plot
  • Fire-Forged Friends Vice-Admiral Smoker and Captain Tashigi, now the commanders of a base filled with Ax-Crazy Marines, are waiting to intercept the Straw Hats in the New World, but when they take an unexpected detour to an island that is supposed to be deserted, they head there.
    Source: Fire-Forged Friends
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Head and Detour. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/detour/head
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