aberratic

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], 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