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aberrant

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun aberrant has 1 sense

Adjective aberrant has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

aberranta. [L. aberrans, -rantis, p. pr. of aberrare. See Aberr.].
  •  Wandering; straying from the right way.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.  [1913 Webster]
    "The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

aberrant, adj.
1 esp. Biol. diverging from the normal type.
2 departing from an accepted standard.

Derivative
aberrance n. aberrancy n.
Etymology
L aberrare aberrant- (as AB-, errare stray)

THESAURUS

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

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Unconformity

N unconformity, nonconformity, unconformity, disconformity, unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly, anomalousness, exception, peculiarity, infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage, teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity, freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant, rouser, snorter, individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism, aberration, irregularity, variety, singularity, exemption, salvo, nonconformist, nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish, mongrel, random breed, half-caste, half-blood, half-breed, metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto, tertium quid, hermaphrodite, phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur, griffin, griffon, centaur, saggittary, kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent, mermaid, merman, merfolk, unicorn, Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders, teratology, fish out of water, neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring, one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand, outcast, outlaw, off the beaten track, oasis, uncomformable, exceptional, abnormal, abnormous, anomalous, anomalistic, out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element, irregular, arbitrary, teratogenic, lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton, peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious, out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run, beyond the pale of, out of the pale of, misplaced, funny, unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon, rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, strange, monstrous, wonderful, unexpected, unaccountable, outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy, queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis, unfashionable, fantastic, grotesque, bizarre, outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural, denaturalized, heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid, androgynous, androgynal, asymmetric, adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous, qualified, singular, unique, one-of-a-kind, newfangled, novel, non-classical, original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar, undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled, unconformably, except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone, however, yet, but, once in a blue moon, once in a million years, Int, what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that?, Sacre bleu, never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like, I could hardly believe it, I saw it, but I didn't believe it.

Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.

Divergence

N divergence, divergency, divarication, ramification, forking, radiation, separation, dispersion, deviation, aberration, diverging, divergent, radiant, centrifugal, aberrant.

Error

N error, fallacy, misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding, inexactness, laxity, misconstruction, miscomputation, non sequitur, mis-statement, mis-report, mumpsimus, mistake, miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread, trip, stumble, botchery, slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip, slip of the pen, lapsus linguae, clerical error, bull, haplography, illusion, delusion, snare, false impression, false idea, bubble, self-decit, self-deception, mists of error, heresy, hallucination, false light, dream, fable, bias, misleading, erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless, unsubstantial, heretical, unsound, illogical, inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, illusive, illusory, delusive, mock, ideal, spurious, deceitful, perverted, controvertible, unsustainable, unauthenticated, untrustworthy, exploded, refuted, discarded, in error, under an error, mistaken, tripping, out, out in one's reckoning, aberrant, beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off, astray, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, in the wrong box, outside the ballpark, at cross purposes, all in the wrong, all out, more or less, errare est humanum, mentis gratissimus error, on the dubious waves of error tost, to err is human, to forgive divine, you lie -- under a mistake.

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