aberrant, deviant, deviate
(adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm; “aberrant behavior”; “deviant ideas”
aberrant
(noun) one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
Source: WordNet® 3.1
aberrant (comparative more aberrant, superlative most aberrant)
Differing from the norm. [First attested sometime between the mid 16th century and the early 17th century.]
(sometimes, figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
(botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
• (differing from the norm): abnormal, exceptional, unusual; see also strange
• (straying from the right way): devious, errant, immoral; see also immoral
• (deviating from the natural type)
• (differing from the norm): normal, regular, true; see also normal
• (straying from the right way): correct, right, straight; see also virtuous
• (deviating from the natural type): continuous
aberrant (plural aberrants)
A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
(biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.
• (thing deviating from the group): deviant, freak; see also anomaly
• (thing deviating from the natural type)
Source: Wiktionary
Ab*er"rant, a. Etym: [L. aberrans, -rantis, p.pr. of aberrare.]
Definition: See Aberr.]
1. Wandering; straying from the right way.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
