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aberrant
/ æˈbɛrənt /
adjective
- deviating from the normal or usual type, as certain animals from the group in which they are classified
- behaving in an abnormal or untypical way
- deviating from truth, morality, etc
Derived Forms
- abˈerrance, noun
Other Words From
- ab·errance ab·erran·cy noun
- ab·errant·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of aberrant1
Example Sentences
Turmeric could have important abilities in healing and preventing brain damage—or this could be an aberrant finding.
Herman Cain: For the first time, he seemed to acknowledge that there is something aberrant about his candidacy.
In the apes and lemurs, on the contrary, the ground-dwellers are the aberrant forms, stray wanderers from the host.
These aberrant lines are much more common in the dramatic blank verse of the seventeenth century.
In the second case an aberrant artery was given off from the radial side of the brachial artery, again almost at its origin.
This aberrant artery anastomosed below the elbow-joint with the radial side of the radial artery.
There was another article on aberrant cases—a few strange little misbehaviors in classical syndromes.
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