deviate

³de·vi·ate

adj \-vē-ət, -vē-ˌāt\

Definition of DEVIATE

: departing significantly from the behavioral norms of a particular society <deviate behavior>

Examples of DEVIATE

1. <the mother's deviate response to her child's death aroused suspicions>

First Known Use of DEVIATE

1929

Related to DEVIATE

Synonyms: aberrant, aberrational, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, deviant, devious, irregular, unnatural, untypical

Antonyms: natural, normal, regular, standard, typical

Related Words: unrepresentative; extraordinary, preternatural; rare, uncommon, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted; bizarre, curious, far-out, funny, kinky, odd, outlandish, out-of-the-way, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, remarkable, screwy, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild; eccentric, freakish, idiosyncratic, nonconformist, unconventional, unorthodox; extraordinary, preternatural; rare, uncommon, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted; odd, peculiar, strange

Near Antonyms: common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, ordinary, routine, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine (or run-of-mine), unexceptional, unremarkable, workaday; customary, usual, wonted; archetypal (also archetypical), average, characteristic, representative

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