deviant

deviant
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. perverted, aberrant. — n. pervert; sodomite, pederast, etc.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. aberrant, atypical, abnormal, perverted; see different 1 , unusual 2 , wicked 1 , wrong 1 , 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
nonconformist, rebel, original, weirdo, one-of-a-kind, oddball, deviate, radical, pervert.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I adjective Departing from the normal: aberrant, abnormal, anomalistic, anomalous, atypic, atypical, divergent, irregular, preternatural, unnatural. See GOOD, USUAL. II noun One whose sexual behavior differs from the accepted norm: deviate, pervert. See SEX, USUAL.

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