Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aberrant"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aberrant \Ab*er"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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
aberrant
adj : markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrent
behavior"; deviant ideas" [syn: {deviant}]
n : one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a
group
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