deviate :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')

peeper, voyeur, Peeping Tom

n. a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others

prodigal, profligate, squanderer

n. a recklessly extravagant consumer

blood, rip, rake, profligate, roue, rouée, rouee

n. a dissolute man in fashionable society

stray, drift, err

v. wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"

cast, ramble, swan, stray, range, drift, vagabond, wander, roam, rove

v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"

shift, stir, agitate, budge

v. move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat"

move apart, diverge, draw apart

v. move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here"

clash, jar, collide, be incompatible

v. be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"

discord, disagree, disaccord

v. be different from one another

warped

adj. used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture; "the floors were warped and cracked"

aberrant, deviant, perverse

adj. markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"

anomalous, anomalistic, anomalistical

adj. deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"

antidromic

adj. conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal

irregular, unusual, atypical

adj. deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal; "these days large families are atypical"; "atypical clinical findings"; "atypical pneumonia"; "highly irregular behavior"

brachydactylic, brachydactylous

adj. having abnormally short finger or toes

defective

adj. markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; "defective speech"

exceptional

adj. deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence; "special educational provisions for exceptional children"

freakish, freaky

adj. characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe"

subnormal

adj. below normal or average; "after the floods the harvests were subnormal"; "subnormal intelligence"

supernormal

adj. exceeding the normal or average; "years of supernormal employment during the war"; "a phase of supernormal excitability"

tighten, fasten

v. make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire"

conform

v. be similar, be in line with

normal

adj. conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"

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