aberrant

aberrant
    adj 1: markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant
           behavior"; "deviant ideas" [syn: {aberrant}, {deviant},
           {deviate}]
    n 1: one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a
         group
    

Aberrant \Ab*er"rant\, a. [L. aberrans, -rantis, p. pr. of
   aberrare. See {Aberr}.]
   1. Wandering; straying from the right way.
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   2. (Biol.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type;
      exceptional; abnormal.
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            The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have
            been the number of connecting forms which, on my
            theory, have been exterminated.       --Darwin.
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137 Moby Thesaurus words for "aberrant":
      aberrative, abnormal, abominable, abroad, adrift, all abroad,
      all off, all wrong, amiss, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous,
      askew, astray, at fault, atrocious, atypical, awry,
      beside the mark, circuitous, corrupt, criminal, deceptive,
      defective, delinquent, delusive, departing, desultory, deviant,
      deviating, deviational, deviative, deviatory, devious, different,
      digressive, discursive, disgraceful, disparate, distorted,
      divergent, eccentric, errant, erratic, erring, erroneous, evil,
      exceptional, excursive, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty,
      flawed, formless, hardly the thing, heretical, heteroclite,
      heterodox, heteromorphic, ignominious, illegal, illogical,
      illusory, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, indirect,
      infamous, irregular, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, not done,
      not right, not the thing, not true, odd, off, off the track,
      off-base, off-color, out, out-of-line, out-of-the-way, peccant,
      peculiar, perverse, perverted, planetary, preternatural, rambling,
      roving, sacrilegious, scandalous, self-contradictory, serpentine,
      shameful, shameless, shapeless, shifting, sinful, snaky, strange,
      stray, straying, subnormal, swerving, terrible, turning, twisting,
      undirected, undue, unfactual, unfit, unfitting, unlawful,
      unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unrepresentative, unrighteous,
      unseemly, unsuitable, untrue, untypical, unusual, vagrant, veering,
      wandering, wicked, wide, winding, wrong, wrongful, zigzag