aberrant
adjective /əˈberənt/, /ˈæbərənt/
/əˈberənt/, /ˈæbərənt/
- (formal) not usual or not socially acceptable
- The aim is to find the cause of the child's aberrant behaviour.
Extra Examples- The waiter's manner suggested that vegetarianism was aberrant and therefore embarrassing.
- The word ‘street’ as in ‘street crime’ is used as a metaphor for what is aberrant and fearful in the light of social norms.
- (biology) being or becoming different from the normal type
- aberrant chromosomes
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin aberrant- ‘wandering away’, from the verb aberrare, from ab- ‘away, from’ + errare ‘to stray’.