Freakish vs Aberrant - What's the difference?
freakish | aberrant | Related terms |
resembling a freak
strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre
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capricious or unpredictable
Differing from the norm.
(sometimes, figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
(botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
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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.
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Freakish is a related term of aberrant.
As adjectives the difference between freakish and aberrant
is that freakish is resembling a freak while aberrant is differing from the norm .As a noun aberrant is
a person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.freakish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport , 22 September 2013:
- This was arguably a more emphatic win than that Old Trafford thrashing, without the freakish element and simply the result of City's vast superiority in all areas.
Derived terms
* freakishlyaberrant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.