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aberratory

aberratory adjective: of or pertaining to aberration; aberrant.

Adjective

aberratory (comparative more aberratory, superlative most aberratory)

  1. (rare) Of or pertaining to aberration; aberrant.
    • There was enough of her family in Fedora for that last to sound improbable—another of those things to be assuaged, a sort of unaccountable temperamentality; not as bad as a drug addict but impolitely aberratory.p. 1932 (written), Zelda Fitzgerald, “Other Names for Roses”, in The Collected Writings, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, published 1991, →ISBN, page 366
    • This was so acceptable an improvement on either “King Caucus” or the erratic and aberratory method of legislative or mass-meeting nominations that the parties adopted it for the Presidency as well as the Vice Presidency.1934 September 21, Charles Willis Thompson, “1934 and Political Change”, in The Commonweal, volume 20, number 21, New York, page 479

Forms of aberratory

comparativemore aberratory
superlativemost aberratory

Origin of aberratory

From aberrate + -ory.

Questions about aberratory

What does aberratory mean?
Aberratory means of or pertaining to aberration; aberrant.
What part of speech is aberratory?
Aberratory is an adjective.

Words near aberratory in the dictionary

  1. aberrations
  2. aberrations of light
  3. aberrative
  4. aberrator
  5. aberrators
  6. aberratory
  7. aberred
  8. aberring
  9. aberrometer
  10. aberrometers
  11. aberrometric

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