aberrant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: aberrant	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aberrant adj markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas" Synonym(s): aberrant, deviant, deviate n one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aberrant \Aber"rant\, a. [L. aberrans, -rantis, p. pr. of aberrare. 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.