aberrant
14
8.2
- adjective
- /ˈæbərənt/
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anómalo
- The conditions that are responsible for blindness may cause aberrant processing of other forms of sensory stimuli.
- aberrant behavior
- aberrant regenerative response
But the point is that these these processes evolved so that you wouldn't get an aberrant cell that would become cancerous.
- But the point is that these these processes evolved so that you wouldn't get an aberrant cell that would become cancerous.
- Notice from the perspective of outsiders who have their own culture, the continual ongoing development of of this culture is going to seem aberrant.
- So you go in there and and you hear these events and you think this is completely aberrant and this is the nature of this book.
Examples
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Nevil Reed became prone to involuntary, aberrant, and shocking impulses.
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Any signs of aberrant behavior?
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So you have to be really aberrant in order to meet this standard.
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Report any aberrant behavior in Dr. Ross to the major immediately.
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They must have loved your aberrant lifestyle.
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- I definitely have some more work to do before I make a final analysis, but I would describe much of what I saw today as aberrant.
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That's why we feel that unless you change your environment and change the experiences, we'll get the same aberrant behavior within people unless the environment is changed.
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Rarely were we clear on so many things that were manifestations of aberrant fantasies.
Fiction book (1994) -
Researchers have used LBW as the major marker for aberrant fetal programming.
Academic text (2011) -
The scientist observed aberrant behavior in the test subjects, which raised concerns about the experiment's validity.
Synonyms
∞
2.2
Not common and different from what people expect
798
1.0
Different from what is normal or expected
406
5.9
Very strange or unusual in a way that surprises people
123
4.6
Different from what is normal and expected
101
4.1
Not normal or what people expect
100
4.2
Different from what is usual in a way that may be worrying
77
6.2
Different from what most people do or accept
52
7.3
Not following the usual rules or customs
48
4.1
Not usual and different from what people expect
27
5.7
Different from what is usual or expected
26
8.1
Very different from what most people accept in behavior or morals
23
8.1
Not like what is usual or expected
22
4.2
Not how a person usually behaves
16
8.9
Not proper or polite and likely to cause trouble
14
5.4
Not usual for a person or thing
4
8.5
Going beyond accepted social or moral rules
3
7.8
Not following rules or expected standards
1
8.6
Not normal for a person, time, or place
Different from what is normal or expected
Not usual or expected
Antonyms
How Abnormal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aberrant comes from Latin parts ab- 'away' and errare 'to wander', and it is the same root as err and error. So, something aberrant has 'wandered away' from what is normal.