Unusual vs Aberrant - What's the difference?
unusual | aberrant | Related terms |
Unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.
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Not usual.
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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Unusual is a related term of aberrant.
As adjectives the difference between unusual and aberrant
is that unusual is unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm while aberrant is differing from the norm .As a noun aberrant is
a person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.unusual
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Alternative forms
* unusuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (different from the expected) abnormal, rare, strange, weird, (stronger) extraordinary ** See alsoAntonyms
* (different from the expected) normal, usualaberrant
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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.
