aberrant
Meanings
Plural: aberrants
Noun
- one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
- A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
- A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.
Adjective Satellite
- markedly different from an accepted norm
- "aberrant behavior"
Adj
- Differing from the norm.
- Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
- Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr.
Synonyms
aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, anomaly, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, corrupt, corrupted, curious, depraved, deviant, deviate, devious, dirty-handed, discrepant, dissolute, eerie, effete, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, funny, heteroclite, hinky, immodest, immoral, improper, incongruitous, incongruous, incontinent, indecent, indecorous, iniquitous, iniquous, irregular, kooky, licentious, monstrous, nonstandard, obscene, odd, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, peculiar, perverse, perverted, profligate, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, strange, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unduteous, undutiful, unearthly, unethical, unexpected, ungodly, unjust, unprincipled, unreasonable, unrighteous, unscrupulous, unseemly, unusual, unwonted, unworthy, weird, weirdsome, wrong, yampy
Antonyms
bad, conspicuous, continuous, correct, different, dishonest, egregious, exceptional, historic, immodest, immoral, incontinent, indecent, interesting, memorable, normal, notable, noteworthy, obscene, outstanding, regular, remarkable, reprehensible, right, risque, shameless, special, straight, strange, true, unchaste, unique, wicked
Scrabble Score: 10
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