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Word: Aberrant
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
mid 16th century: from Latin aberrant- ‘wandering away’, from the verb aberrare, from ab- ‘away, from’ + errare ‘to stray’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əˈbɛrənt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
departing from an accepted standard
Short Definition:departing from accepted standard
Examples:- this somewhat aberrant behaviour requires an explanation
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