aberratic

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English

Adjective

aberratic (comparative more aberratic, superlative most aberratic)

  1. Characterized by aberration.
    Synonyms: aberrant, aberrational, abnormal
    • 1888, John Bernhard Smith, A Monograph of the Sphingidae of America North of Mexico, Philadelphia: American Entomological Society, page 209:
      [] I believe that this species will turn out only an aberratic form of [Ellema] harrisii—hardly a variety—for were it a variety it would occur more frequently.
    • 1902, Harry Quilter, What’s What, London: Sonnenschein, page 288:
      the passionate maidens so woefully aberratic in their love affairs, the comic poodles and Scotch terriers, the outspoken families and crusty elders who make up Miss Broughton’s Dramatis Personæ
    • 1988, Chinua Achebe, “The Truth of Fiction”, in Hopes and Impediments, New York: Doubleday, published 1989, page 144:
      the law of reciprocity which informs like a gravitational force the seemingly aberratic motions of his bizarre, fictive universe