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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aberrant \Ab*er"rant\, a. [L. aberrans -rantis, p. pr of aberrare See {Aberr}.] 1. Wandering; straying from the right way 2. (Biol.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: aberrant adj : markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrent behavior"; deviant ideas" [syn: {deviant}] n : one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
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