Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

    Abweichler m/Abweichlerin, Abtrünniger m/Abtrünnige

  2. A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.

More definitions
  • one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Tom's aberrant thinking persists.

  2. "Would you like to be a billionaire, Tom?" "An aberrant psychopath, a cunning snake, a demigod who is allowed to do everything?"

    de„Wärst du gern Milliardär, Tom?“ – „Ein anomaler Psychopath, eine hinterlistige Schlange, ein Halbgott, der sich alles erlauben kann?“ — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person wandering from the rest of the group:

Origin

From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“fro

From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr.

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Forms

plural: aberrants
Singularaberrant
Pluralaberrants

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
thing deviating from the group:deviantC2

Word family

1 related words
Relatedaberrate

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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