Tuesday word: Aberrant
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Aberrant (adjective, noun)
ab·er·rant [uh-ber-uhnt, ab-er-]
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.
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH ABERRANT
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
See synonyms for aberrant on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR ABERRANT
1. wandering
2. divergent, unusual
ORIGIN: First recorded in 1820–30, aberrant is from the Latin word aberrant- (stem of aberrans, present participle of aberrare 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
Aberrant (adjective, noun)
ab·er·rant [uh-ber-uhnt, ab-er-]
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.
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH ABERRANT
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
See synonyms for aberrant on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR ABERRANT
1. wandering
2. divergent, unusual
ORIGIN: First recorded in 1820–30, aberrant is from the Latin word aberrant- (stem of aberrans, present participle of aberrare 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
