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Adjective: deviant  dee-vee-unt
  1. Markedly different from an accepted norm
    "deviant ideas";
    - aberrant, deviate
Noun: deviant  dee-vee-unt
  1. A person whose behaviour deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behaviour
    - pervert, deviate, degenerate, perve [informal], perv [informal]
     
  2. A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern

Derived forms: deviants

See also: abnormal, unnatural

Type of: miscreant, reprobate

Encyclopedia: Deviant