/het"euhr euh kluyt'/ , adj. Also, heteroclitic /het'euhr euh klit"ik/ , heteroclitical .
1. irregular or abnormal; anomalous.
2. Gram. irregular in inflection; having inflected forms belonging to more than one class of stems.
n.
3. a person or thing that deviates from the ordinary rule or form.
4. Gram. a heteroclite word.
[ 1570-80; heteroclitus heteróklitos, equiv. to hetero- HETERO- + -klitos, verbid of klínein to bend, inflect ]