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Aberrant definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ABER'RANT, a. Wandering, straying from the right way. [Rarely used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas" [syn: aberrant, deviant, deviate] n
1: one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Latin aberrant-, aberrans, present participle of aberrare to go astray, from ab- + errare to wander, err Date: circa 1780 1. straying from the right or normal way 2. deviating from the usual or natural type ; atypical • aberrance noun • aberrancy noun • aberrantly adverb II. noun Date: 1938 1. an aberrant group, individual, or structure 2. a person whose behavior departs substantially from the standard

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 esp. Biol. diverging from the normal type. 2 departing from an accepted standard. Derivatives: aberrance n. aberrancy n. Etymology: L aberrare aberrant- (as AB-, errare stray)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Aberrant 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Aberrant means unusual and not socially acceptable. (FORMAL) Ian's rages and aberrant behavior worsened. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Deviating, wandering, rambling, diverging, divergent, devious, erratic, out of the right way. 2. Irregular, abnormal, unnatural, unusual, singular, peculiar, anomalous, unconformable, exceptional, strange, anomalistic, eccentric, erratic, out of the way, disconnected, inconsequent, idiotic, monstrous, preternatural.

Moby Thesaurus

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