aberrant
Plural: aberrants
Noun
- A person or thing that deviates from the normal or accepted standard.
- 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.
Examples
- Playing QI is a bit of an aberrant, but it’s a game-changer.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr.
Synonyms
deviant, deviate, aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, anomaly, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, corrupt, corrupted, curious, depraved, 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 Dick's hatband, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, 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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aberrant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary