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Aberrant

Aberrant Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Aberrant? [n] one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group [adj] markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrent behavior"; "deviant ideas" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Aberrant: abnormal \| deviant Related Terms \| Find terms related to Aberrant: aberrative \| abnormal \| abominable \| abroad \| adrift \| all abroad \| all off \| all wrong \| amiss \| amorphous \| anomalistic \| anomalous \| askew \| astray \| at fault \| atrocious \| atypical \| awry \| beside the mark \| circuitous \| corrupt \| criminal \| deceptive \| defective \| delinquent \| delusive \| departing \| desultory \| deviant \| deviating \| deviational \| deviative \| deviatory \| devious \| different \| digressive \| discursive \| disgraceful \| disparate \| distorted \| divergent \| eccentric \| errant \| erratic \| erring \| erroneous \| evil \| exceptional \| excursive \| fallacious \| false \| faultful \| faulty \| flawed \| formless \| hardly the thing \| heretical \| heteroclite \| heterodox \| heteromorphic \| ignominious \| illegal \| illogical \| illusory \| improper \| inappropriate \| incorrect \| indecorous \| indirect \| infamous \| irregular \| labyrinthine \| mazy \| meandering \| not done \| not right \| not the thing \| not true \| odd \| off \| off the track \| off-base \| off-color \| out \| out-of-line \| out-of-the-way \| peccant \| peculiar \| perverse \| perverted \| planetary \| preternatural \| rambling \| roving \| sacrilegious \| scandalous \| self-contradictory \| serpentine \| shameful \| shameless \| shapeless \| shifting \| sinful \| snaky \| strange \| stray \| straying \| subnormal \| swerving \| terrible \| turning \| twisting \| undirected \| undue \| unfactual \| unfit \| unfitting \| unlawful \| unnatural \| unorthodox \| unproved \| unrepresentative \| unrighteous \| unseemly \| unsuitable \| untrue \| untypical \| unusual \| vagrant \| veering \| wandering \| wicked \| wide \| winding \| wrong \| wrongful \| zigzag See Also \| anomaly \| unusual person Aberrant In Webster's Dictionary \Ab*er"rant\, a. [L. aberrans, -rantis, p. pr. of aberrare. See {Aberr}.] 1. Wandering; straying from the right way. 2. (Biol.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. --Darwin.

Aberrant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Aberrant?

[n] one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
[adj] markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrent behavior"; "deviant ideas"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Aberrant: abnormal | deviant

See Also | anomaly | unusual person

Aberrant In Webster's Dictionary

\Ab*er"rant\, a. [L. aberrans, -rantis, p. pr. of
aberrare. See {Aberr}.]
1. Wandering; straying from the right way.

2. (Biol.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type;
   exceptional; abnormal.

         The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have
         been the number of connecting forms which, on my
         theory, have been exterminated.       --Darwin.

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