1_million_words | Word of the Day 03/30/24 Aberrant

Aberrant (adjective, noun)
ab·er·rant [uh-ber-uhnt, ab-er-] (previously 10-15-13)

adjective
1. departing from the right, normal, or usual course.
2. deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal.

noun
3. an aberrant person, thing, group, etc.

Can be confused: abhorrent.

OTHER WORDS FROM ABERRANT
ab·er·rance, ab·er·ran·cy, noun
ab·er·rant·ly, adverb

WORDS RELATED TO ABERRANT
abnormal, deviant, psycho, weird, atypical, bizarre, different, flaky, mental, nonstandard, odd, off-base, off-color, out of line, peculiar, strange, unusual

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OTHER WORDS FOR ABERRANT
1. wandering.
2. divergent, unusual.

ORIGIN: First recorded in 1820–30, aberrant is from the Latin word aberrant- (stem of aberrāns, present participle of aberrāre to deviate). See ab-, errant

HOW TO USE ABERRANT IN A SENTENCE
Turmeric could have important abilities in healing and preventing brain damage—or this could be an aberrant finding.
FISH OIL, TURMERIC, AND GINSENG, OH MY! ARE ‘BRAIN FOODS’ B.S.? | DR. ANAND VEERAVAGU, MD | OCTOBER 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

Herman Cain: For the first time, he seemed to acknowledge that there is something aberrant about his candidacy.
AT LAST, SOME GOP CONTENDERS | MATT LATIMER | JUNE 14, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

In the apes and lemurs, on the contrary, the ground-dwellers are the aberrant forms, stray wanderers from the host.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTOR | CHARLES MORRIS

These aberrant lines are much more common in the dramatic blank verse of the seventeenth century.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 57, NO. 356, JUNE, 1845 | VARIOUS

In the second case an aberrant artery was given off from the radial side of the brachial artery, again almost at its origin.
ON THE GENESIS OF SPECIES | ST. GEORGE MIVART

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