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Aberrant   Listen
adjective
Aberrant  adj.  
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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Aberrant" Quotes from Famous Books



... widely, with more absolute faith, and with more vehement enthusiasm, than in the country of its birth. In Germany, more conspicuously than elsewhere, it has itself become the subject of developments as strange and as aberrant as any which it assumes in the history of Organic Life. The most extravagant conclusions have been drawn from it—invading every branch of human thought, in Science, in Philosophy, and in Religion. These conclusions have been ...
— The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality • Rudolf Schmid

... no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description. Adj. uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous^; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny. unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Aberrant" :   anomaly, aberrate, unusual person, unnatural



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