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abnormal

[ ab-nawr-muhl ]

adjective

  1. not normal, average, typical, or usual; deviating from a standard:

    abnormal powers of concentration; an abnormal amount of snow; abnormal behavior.

    Synonyms: odd, unnatural, deviant, irregular, aberrant, anomalous

  2. extremely or excessively large:

    abnormal profit.



abnormal

/ æbˈnɔːməl /

adjective

  1. not normal; deviating from the usual or typical; extraordinary
  2. informal.
    odd in behaviour or appearance; strange


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Derived Forms

  • abˈnormally, adverb

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Other Words From

  • ab·normal·ly adverb
  • ab·normal·ness noun
  • super·ab·normal adjective
  • super·ab·normal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of abnormal1

First recorded in 1850–55; ab- + normal; replacing anormal, from Medieval Latin anōrmālus, variant of anōmālus anomalous, influenced by Latin norma norm

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Word History and Origins

Origin of abnormal1

C19: ab- 1+ normal , replacing earlier anormal from Medieval Latin anormalus, a blend of Late Latin anōmalus anomalous + Latin abnormis departing from a rule

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Example Sentences

In a phone interview with The Washington Post, she explained why the decisions made in Texas about possible weather extremes were far from abnormal.

When asexual people are treated as “abnormal” by doctors or therapists, it does them a disservice.

Recent research suggests the body’s waste removal process relies on sleep to get rid of harmful proteins from the brain, particularly abnormal variants of amyloid.

Within hours, they learned there were 27 cases — seven of them severe — with fever, difficulty breathing and a buildup of abnormal substances in the lungs.

It not only increases the spread of misinformation, … it also groups people together so that their incorrect ideas don’t seem as abnormal as they otherwise would.

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The problem, though, is that this advice presumes that death threats are rare and abnormal.

As the system booted up, Beck noticed that an abnormal number of terminals were active.

Robyn was in her senior year of college in January 2008 when she found out she had an abnormal pap smear.

Erica was 22 when her doctor called her and said she had an abnormal pap smear.

Neurologist Oliver Sacks says the syndrome helps give the Team USA goalie ‘abnormal quickness.’

They combine the fixing with the staining process, and stain differentially every normal and abnormal structure in the blood.

The abnormal rise in wages had the bad effect of inducing the natives to leave their pastoral pursuits to flock into the towns.

All these abnormal conditions, as a rule, disappear when the consumption of the poison is arrested.

She was ever looking forward for something to excite or satisfy her abnormal desire for the romantic or the dreadful.

But conditions now and then appear which are abnormal to man, but which are normal to some of the lower animals.

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