Antonyms for deviant
ˈdi vi əntde·viant

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1. pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerateadjective

   a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

   Antonyms:
   normal

   Synonyms:
   pervert, deviate, degenerate

2. aberrant, deviant, deviateadjective

   markedly different from an accepted norm

   "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"

   Antonyms:
   normal

   Synonyms:
   aberrant, deviate

How to use deviant in a sentence?

1. David Lee:

   You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

2. Caitlin Ryan:

   Homosexuality was considered a mental illness, deviant and immoral, if it were not for the early work of Reuters Health and social systems to change that, I don’t think we would have made the advances that we’ve made since then.

3. Police Cmdr. Greg McEachern:

   These assaults were not date rapes. They were not acquaintance rapes. These assaults were violent rapes committed by a serial rapist -- a sexual deviant predator who was not going to stop until it was caught.

4. William Seward Burroughs:

   In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.

5. Aidan Key:

   My compassion is there for the parents. All any parent wants is love for their children, for their children to live good lives. Transgender is such a new thing in society and we've not faced it or discussed it as a society. We've kept it in a dark corner where some people still think it's some deviant sexual behavior, if the parents would have reached out for more information, or said 'This is a lot. We need some time,' or if they had access to a group that would welcome them to talk, that might have made the difference for Leelah.

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