Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deviating from what is considered proper or normal.
- adjective Deviating from what is typical for a specified thing.
- noun One that is aberrant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wandering; straying from the right or usual course.
- In zoology and botany, differing in some of its characters from the group in which it is placed: said of an individual, a species, a genus, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wandering; straying from the right way.
- adjective (Biol.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person or object that deviates from what is normal in his group.
- noun biology A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an
atypical chromosone number.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
- adjective markedly different from an accepted norm
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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They rely on families to actually report what they call aberrant behavior.
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Felipe Calderon went on Twitter to express dismay over what he called an "aberrant act of terror and barbarity."
News - latimes.com 2011
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It also says some civilian supervisors are also at fault for ignoring clear signs of what it called his aberrant behavior.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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More conspicuously aberrant is an example I read over the weekend:
Nouns of multitude 2009
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More conspicuously aberrant is an example I read over the weekend:
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This would mean that the morphological criteria on which extant supposed D. arnoldi and D. hololissa have been identified are utterly unreliable: an idea which matches suggestions that 'carapace morphology is sensitive to environmental conditions and that captivity can result in aberrant morphologies' (Palkovacs et al. 2003, p. 1409; see also Gerlach 2004b).
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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That suggests that the Washington Post poll, which reported a figure of 21%, was not a fluke or an "outlier," as Joe and pollster-folk like to call aberrant polls that you can't trust.
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That suggests that the Washington Post poll, which reported a figure of 21%, was not a fluke or an "outlier," as Joe and pollster-folk like to call aberrant polls that you can't trust.
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You (and Iain Dale) miss the truly shocking thing on the leaflet, namely the aberrant apostrophe after Simon Hughes 'name.
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Species and groups of species which are called aberrant, and which may fancifully be called living fossils, will aid us in forming a picture of the ancient forms of life.
brusselsprouts commented on the word aberrant
As in the aberrant lifestyle I've been living lately can't continue...
January 24, 2008
emakrizi commented on the word aberrant
Some environmental hormones are believed to cause aberrant mating behavior.
어떤 환경 호르몬�?� 변태�?�?� 성행위�?� �?�?��?� �?�기�?� 한다.
His aberrant behaviors caused a lot of anxiety to his parents.
그�?� 정�?�를 벗어난 행위 때문�? 부모님들�?� 걱정�?� 많�?� 하셨다.
The incident reminded the public that old habits die hard and some wondered whether it's just the tip of the iceberg rather than the isolated action of an aberrant officer.
�?�번 �?�분 사건�?� 구태가 사�?�지기 힘들다는 사실�?� 국민들�?게 �?�?�게 했고 �?��?�?서는 �?�번 사건�?� 비행 장�?�?� �?�출�?� 행�?��?��?�기 보다는 단지 빙산�?� �?��?�?�지 모른다고 여기고 있다.
March 31, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word aberrant
Which part is "the tip of the iceberg"?
March 31, 2009
bilby commented on the word aberrant
It's the top bit. Above the greenberg, bloomberg, Allan Ginsberg, jarlsberg, Strindberg and Steven Spielberg.
March 31, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word aberrant
*snort*
March 31, 2009
kingparton commented on the word aberrant
We have nothing but dreams, and we have forgotten that seeing visions—a practice now relegated to the aberrant and uneducated—was once a more significant, interesting, and disciplined kind of dreaming.
T.S. Eliot, "Dante"
November 12, 2011
mohitanand commented on the word aberrant
adjective: markedly different from an accepted norm
When the financial director started screaming and throwing food at his co-workers, the police had to come in to deal with his aberrant behavior.
October 19, 2016