Definition of "afield" []

• Off the usual or desired track. See Synonyms at amiss. (adverb)
• Away from one's home or usual environment. (adverb)
• To or on a field. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Law schools do tolerate some non-PC thinking, but not anything to far afield from the orthodoxy."
• "This is getting far afield from the subject of this thread, but the point is that cost-benefit considerations are not immoral."
• "Andy McGill: Law schools do tolerate some non-PC thinking, but not anything to far afield from the orthodoxy."