deviant

About 3.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.

   At the trial, the extent of his deviant behaviour became clear.

2. noun A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.

   He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.

3. noun A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.

   As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant.

4. noun A member of the online art community DeviantArt.

Similar words

deviate abnormal aberrant pervert degenerate anomalous unusual atypical perv dissenting

Often followed by

behavior and behaviour or sexual in behaviors acts from

Word family

deviants