deviant

1. 1.

   markedly different from an accepted norm

   “aberrant behavior”

   “deviant ideas”

   Synonymsaberrantdeviate

   Similarabnormal

Other forms of deviant

plural

deviants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deviant

What does deviant mean?

deviant means "a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deviant?

deviant has 3 syllables: de-vi-ant. The stress falls on "de". In IPA it is /ˈdiviənt/.

What is another word for deviant?

Close synonyms include pervert, deviate, degenerate, aberrant, deviate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deviant a common word?

deviant is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.