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anomalous
Being or seeming to be inconsistent, contradictory, or improper
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  1. Being or seeming to be inconsistent, contradictory, or improper
  2. Deviating from the regular arrangement, general rule, or usual method; abnormal
  3. Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
deviant
Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.
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  1. Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.
  2. Of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
  3. Deviating, esp. from what is considered normal in a group or for a society
errant
Roving, especially in search of adventure:
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  1. Roving, especially in search of adventure:
  2. Moving from the proper course or established limits:
  3. Missing an intended target or recipient:
strange
Not of one's own or a particular locality, environment, or kind; not native:
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  1. Not of one's own or a particular locality, environment, or kind; not native:
  2. Quite unusual or uncommon; extraordinary
  3. Not previously known; unfamiliar:
errant
Failing to adhere to guidelines or moral standards:
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  1. Failing to adhere to guidelines or moral standards:
  2. Aimless or irregular in motion:
  3. Missing an intended target or recipient:
abnormal
Not normal; not average; not typical; not usual; irregular, esp. to a considerable degree
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  1. Not normal; not average; not typical; not usual; irregular, esp. to a considerable degree
  2. Not typical, usual, or regular; not normal; deviant.
anomalistic
Tending to be anomalous
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  1. Tending to be anomalous
  2. (Astronomy) Of or pertaining to an anomaly (angle of a body from its perihelion)
  3. Irregular
anomalous
Being or seeming to be inconsistent, contradictory, or improper
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  1. Being or seeming to be inconsistent, contradictory, or improper
  2. Deviating from the regular arrangement, general rule, or usual method; abnormal
  3. Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
atypic
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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  1. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
  2. That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type
atypical
Not conforming to type; unusual or irregular.
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  1. Not conforming to type; unusual or irregular.
  2. Not typical; not characteristic; abnormal
  3. Unusual or irregular.
deviant
Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.
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  1. Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.
  2. Of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
  3. Deviating, esp. from what is considered normal in a group or for a society
divergent
Causing divergence
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  1. Causing divergence
  2. Varying from one another or from a norm; deviating; different
  3. Drawing apart from a common point; diverging.
irregular
Of uneven rate, occurrence, or duration:
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  1. Of uneven rate, occurrence, or duration:
  2. (Grammar) Departing from the usual pattern of inflection, derivation, or word formation, as the present forms of the verb be or the plural noun children.
  3. Not straight, uniform, or symmetrical:
preternatural
Transcending the natural or material order; supernatural.
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  1. Transcending the natural or material order; supernatural.
  2. Differing from or beyond what is normally found in or expected from nature; abnormal
  3. Surpassing what is normal or usual; extraordinary:
unnatural
Contrary to, or at variance with, nature; abnormal; strange
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  1. Contrary to, or at variance with, nature; abnormal; strange
  2. Characterized by a lack of the emotions, attitudes, or behavior regarded as natural, normal, or right
  3. Not in accordance with what usually occurs in nature:
Find another word for aberrant. In this page you can discover 20 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for aberrant, like: anomalous, deviant, errant, strange, unusual, wrong, errant, abnormal, anomalistic, anomalous and atypic.

Sentence Examples

  • In the Malacostraca, an elongated heart with numerous segmentally arranged ostia is found only in the aberrant group of Stomatopoda and in the transitional Phyllocarida.

  • They are not tales of aberrant individuals but of societal norms.

  • Platygonus is an aberrant type which died out in the Pleistocene.

  • eyestalks and the antennules in this aberrant group correspond to the primitive head somites or not, their distinctness is certainly a secondarily acquired character, for it is not found in the larvae, nor in any of the more primitive groups of Malacostraca.

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