Abnormal
[æb'nɔːml] or [æb'nɔrml]
Definition
(adj.) much greater than the normal; 'abnormal profits'; 'abnormal ambition' .
(adj.) not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; 'abnormal powers of concentration'; 'abnormal amounts of rain'; 'abnormal circumstances'; 'an abnormal interest in food' .
(adj.) departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development; 'they were heartbroken when they learned their child was abnormal'; 'an abnormal personality' .
Typed by Essie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.
Editor: Manuel
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Irregular, anomalous, anomalistic, unusual, unnatural, singular, peculiar, unconformable, exceptional, heteroclite, aberrant, eccentric, erratic, strange, monstrous, preternatural.
Edited by Ethelred
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Irregular, erratic, peculiar, unusual, exceptional, monstrous, aberrant,devious, divergent, eccentric, strange
ANT:Typical, normal, regular, ordinary, usual, natural, customary, illustrative
Typist: Wanda
Definition
adj. not normal or according to rule: irregular—also Abnor′mous.—ns. Abnormal′ity Abnor′mity.—adv. Abnor′mally.
Inputed by Allen
Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct to be independent is to be abnormal to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.
Checked by Bryant
Examples
- He had a head of abnormal size, with highly intellectual features and a very small and emaciated body. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And he had an abnormal share of youth's normal ambition to impress everybody. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The firm of Babcock & Wilcox gave aid on the boilers, Armington & Sims undertook the engines, but everything else was abnormal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The latter is not of necessity abnormal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There was nothing markedly abnormal in any of these conditions, which harmonized with my former experiences. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There has been no abnormal movement on the road and I know the dispositions and the habits of this post at the sawmill across the road. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This struck me as abnormal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The showman turns this cabinet around and shows that there is nothing abnormal about it externally. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I think Gould's success was due to abnormal development. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Melanie