Thesaurus: aberrant

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1. a. Wandering; straying from the right way.
2. a. Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
3. adj. markedly different from an accepted norm
4. n. one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
5. 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.
6. See Aberr.]
7. j:88/n:12 n. one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group s. markedly different from an accepted norm