deviant

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈdiː.vi.ənt/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
    — He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
  2. A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
    — As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant.
  3. A member of the online art community DeviantArt. Internet
    — In contrast to Flickr, deviantArt offers a broad range of user affordances, enabling both synchronous and asynchronous interpersonal and group communication, as well as networking with other deviants and the surveillance of the work of others (through the deviantWATCH affordance).
形容词 adj.
  1. Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
    — At the trial, the extent of his deviant behaviour became clear.

词形变化

more deviant comparative most deviant superlative deviants plural

词汇关系

近义词
nonconformist irregularity outlier
衍生词
deviantization deviantize nondeviant phenodeviant

词源

词源 1
From Middle English devyaunt (“deviating, different”), from Late Latin dēviāns, present participle of dēviō (“to stray, deviate or detour”). The noun is from the adjective, possibly attested in Middle English with the meaning “one who goes astray”.
* (DeviantArt member): So called because the website was originally for people who modified (deviated) computer applications.
词源 2
From Middle English devyaunt (“deviating, different”), from Late Latin dēviāns, present participle of dēviō (“to stray, deviate or detour”). The noun is from the adjective, possibly attested in Middle English with the meaning “one who goes astray”.
* (DeviantArt member): So called because the website was originally for people who modified (deviated) computer applications.
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