Word Meanings - ABERRANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. Wandering; straying

Additional info about word: ABERRANT

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. (more info) 1. Wandering; straying from the right way.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABERRANT)

• Abnormal
• Irregular
• erratic
• peculiar
• unusual
• exceptional
• monstrous
• aberrant
• devious
• divergent
• eccentric
• strange
• Crazy
• Idiotic
• broken-down
• mad
• crazed
• crack-brained
• lunatic
• demented
• daft
• insane
• Desultory
• Rambling
• discursive
• loose
• unmethodical
• superficial
• unsettled
• inexact
• spasmodic
• fitful
• freakish
• unsystematic
• cursory
• roving
• hasty
• slight
• Eccentric
• Peculiar
• singular
• idiosyncratic
• flighty
• anomalous
• wayward
• irregular
• abnormal
• odd
• whimsical
• Erratic
• changeful
• capricious

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ABERRANT)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to ABERRANT)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• ECCENTRICITY
  The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis. (more info) 1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• ROVINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• ECCENTRICALLY
  In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• ANOMALOUSLY
  In an anomalous manner.
• DEMENTED
  Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• CORROVAL
  A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• PROVINCIALLY
  In a provincial manner.
• CONTROVERSAL
  1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• APPROVING
  Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile. -- Ap*prov"ing*ly, adv.
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE