Definition of aberrant
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: straying from the right or normal way
- aberrant misfits
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Examples of aberrant in a Sentence
- The stones, silvered in the moon's aberrant light, shone like spectral tombs, and the figures, which Dalgliesh knew were Helena, Lettie and the Bostocks, became discarnate shapes disappearing into the darkness. —P. D. James, The Private Patient, 2008
- … as if he had happily spied an aberrant crocus amid the wintry gray scene of Presidential impeachment. —Francis X. Clines, New York Times, 8 Jan. 1999
- … at the brief and aberrant moment in time when it was possible to believe that America owed its great place in the world to its military and moral virtue rather than to the weight of its currency. —Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's, March 1992
a year of aberrant weather—record rainfall in the summer, record heat in the autumn
aberrant behavior can be a sign of rabies in a wild animal
Recent Examples of aberrant from the Web
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Rleigh believes much of Broshears’s aberrant behavior stemmed from a trauma early in his life.
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Would society still view those acts as aberrant or criminal?
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Trey Davis: Dad's aberrant behavior has been in -- in the past has been chronicled quite extensively.
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Like beauty, that which is profane and aberrant lies in the minds of the beholder.
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The new gene therapy, called voretigene neparvovec-rzyl, or Luxturna, and developed by Spark Therapeutics, delivers normal copies of the aberrant gene into retinal cells.
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Trading in the Swedish krona shows no aberrant patterns.
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The Panthers’ decision to investigate was a response to a Sports Illustrated investigative story, published on Sunday, concerning Richardson’s aberrant behavior as an owner and his treatment of employees.
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The notion is that people with autism can learn to recalibrate their aberrant brain rhythms.
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Something aberrant has wandered away from the usual path or form. The word is generally used in a negative way; aberrant behavior, for example, may be a symptom of other problems. But the discovery of an aberrant variety of a species can be exciting news to a biologist, and identifying an aberrant gene has led the way to new treatments for diseases.
aberrant Synonyms
Synonyms
aberrational, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, deviant, deviate, irregular, unnatural, untypical;
Near Antonyms
common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, ordinary, routine, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine (or run-of-mine), unexceptional, unremarkable, workaday;
archetypal (also archetypical), average, characteristic, representative;
Related Words
rare, uncommon, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted;
bizarre, curious, far-out, funny, kinky, odd, outlandish, out-of-the-way, quirky, remarkable, screwy, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild;
eccentric, freakish, idiosyncratic, nonconformist, unconventional, unorthodox;
Definition of aberrant
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: a group, individual, or structure that is not normal or typical : an aberrant group, individual, or structure
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: a person whose behavior departs substantially from the standard
Origin and Etymology of aberrant
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