Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

aberratory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: aber-ra-to-ry
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to aberration; aberrant.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From aberrate + -ory.

Inflected Forms

more aberratory (comparative) most aberratory (superlative)

Questions

What does aberratory mean?: Of or pertaining to aberration; aberrant.
Where does aberratory come from?: From aberrate + -ory.

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