Abnormal \Ab*nor"mal\, a. [For earlier anormal, F. anormal, LL.
anormalus for anomalus, Gr. ?. Confused with L. abnormis. See
Anomalous, Abnormous, Anormal.]
Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type;
anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type;
anomalous; irregular. " --Froude.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
abnormal
adj 1: 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" [ant: normal]
2: departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and
development; "they were heartbroken when they learned
their child was abnormal"; "an abnormal personality" [ant:
normal]
3: much greater than the normal; "abnormal profits"; "abnormal
ambition"
WordNet (r) 2.0
155 Moby Thesaurus words for "abnormal":
aberrant, abominable, absurd, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous,
atrocious, atypical, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained,
cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, criminal,
crotchety, daft, delinquent, deluded, demented, deprived of reason,
deranged, deviant, deviative, different, disgraceful, disoriented,
disproportionate, distraught, divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic,
evil, exceptional, fey, flaky, flighty, formless, freakish, funny,
hallucinated, hardly the thing, heteroclite, heteromorphic,
idiocratic, idiosyncratic, ignominious, illegal, improper,
inappropriate, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate,
incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant,
incorrect, indecorous, infamous, insane, irrational,
irreconcilable, irregular, kinky, kooky, loco, lunatic, mad,
maddened, maggoty, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient,
meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis,
not all there, not done, not right, not the thing, nutty, odd,
oddball, of unsound mind, off, off-base, off-color, off-key,
out of proportion, out-of-line, oxymoronic, paradoxical, peculiar,
preternatural, psycho, queer, quirky, reasonless, sacrilegious,
scandalous, screwball, screwy, self-contradictory, senseless,
shameful, shameless, shapeless, sick, sinful, singular, stark-mad,
stark-staring mad, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, terrible,
tetched, touched, twisted, unbalanced, unconventional, uncustomary,
undue, unfit, unfitting, unhinged, unlawful, unnatural, unregular,
unrepresentative, unrighteous, unsane, unseemly, unsettled,
unsound, unsuitable, untypical, unusual, unwonted, wacky,
wandering, whimsical, wicked, witless, wrong, wrongful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ABNORMAL, 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.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal ...
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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Not normal. An abnormal lesion or growth may be cancerous, premalignant (likely to become cancer), or benign.
http://www.stjude.org/glossary
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Any state, structure, or function that differs substantially from the norm of its kind, exhibiting abnormality.
http://www.anatomyatlases.org/AnatomicVariants/Introduction.shtml
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Different from normal in whatever sense the latter term is used. When normal signifies typical, abnormal means unusual, lying outside the range of common occurrence. When normal signifies a mean or median value, abnormal implies a deviation, however slight, from the mean or median. ...
http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/browse
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A terrm generally used to refer to characteristics that are either socially or statistically unconforming to those of the norm. However, the word "normal" has no clear boundaries, therefore the word "abnormal" can only ever be relative to that of normal.
http://www.autistics.org/access/resources/glossary/main.html
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Any change from the average, not necessarily harmful. When used in reference to genes, an abnormal gene might result in a specific disorder.
http://www.oiaustralia.org/information/dictionary.html
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Not normal; may be cancerous or pre-malignant.
http://www.medtropolis.com/CustomPage.asp
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To dream of things that aren't normal means solutions will soon be found to any problems that have been troubling you whilst awake. Abode: To dream you cannot find your home indicates a loss of faith and integrity in others however, if you have no home, future misfortune could be ahead.
http://soyouhadadream.com/Dictionary-A.htm
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uncontrolled loss of appetite.
http://cancer-surgery.org/glossary.htm
abnormal behavior, abnormal condition, abnormal demand filter, abnormal end, abnormal failure, abnormal pap smear, abnormal psychology, abnormal return, abnormal returns, abnormal uterine bleeding, journal of abnormal psychology
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