aberrant

Meanings

Adjective

• Differing from the norm.
• Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
• Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.

Noun

• A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
• A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.

Related

Opposite words

• continuous

Origin

• From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō, from ab + errō. See aberr.