aberrant
adjectiveGraduateELO 1,400GRECAT
DEFINITION
markedly different from an accepted norm
WEBSTER'S 1913
See Aberr.] 1. Wandering; straying from the right way.
ETYMOLOGY
Latin 'aberrare' - to wander off
ANTONYMS
IN LITERATURE
“But, for him to declare them the garbled and unauthentic utterances of an aberrant mind, and to make public such statement in his own name, would save the situation, possibly the Rincón honor, even though it stultify his own.”
— Charles Francis Stocking, Carmen Ariza
IN USE
“Today, they preserve some features of elasmobranch life in Paleaozoic times, though in other respects they are aberrant.”
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