deviant
adjective
[ ˈdiːvɪənt ]
• departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour.
• "deviant behaviour"
Similar:
aberrant,
deviating,
divergent,
abnormal,
atypical,
untypical,
non-typical,
anomalous,
digressive,
irregular,
non-standard,
nonconformist,
rogue,
perverse,
transgressing,
wayward,
strange,
odd,
peculiar,
uncommon,
unusual,
freak,
freakish,
curious,
bizarre,
eccentric,
idiosyncratic,
unorthodox,
exceptional,
singular,
unrepresentative,
distorted,
twisted,
warped,
perverted,
backasswards,
bent,
kinky,
quirky,
deviant
noun
• a deviant person or thing.
• "killers, deviants, and those whose actions are beyond most human comprehension"
Similar:
nonconformist,
eccentric,
maverick,
individualist,
exception,
outsider,
misfit,
fish out of water,
square peg in a round hole,
round peg in a square hole,
oddball,
odd fish,
weirdo,
weirdie,
freak,
bad boy,
screwball,
kook,
wackadoo,
wackadoodle,
Origin:
late Middle English: from late Latin deviant- ‘turning out of the way’, from the verb deviare (see deviate).
