Antonyms for abnormal
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ab-nawr-muhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : æbˈnɔr məl |
Definition of abnormal
Origin :- 1835, displaced older abnormous (1742) and rival anormal (1835) under influence of Latin abnormis "deviating from a rule," from ab- "off, away from" (see ab-) + norma "rule" (see norm). The older forms were via Old French anormal (13c.), from Medieval Latin anormalos, from Greek anomalos, from an- "not" + homalos, from homos "same." The Greek word was altered in Latin by association with norma. Related: Abnormally.
- adj different from standard or norm
- It was composed of the grim psychological laws that govern the abnormal.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- But this is abnormal and rather an affectation of technical skill.
- Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
- Eccentric, they call me; as if Nature and beauty were abnormal!
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- Marcia knew very well that the family circumstances were abnormal.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- You will remember that these are all of the abnormal type of their grandfather.
- Extract from : « The Perpetuation Of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission And Variation » by Thomas H. Huxley
- Mine had been a solitary life, an unusual, abnormal kind of life.
- Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- For these abnormal insights of the adepts ought to be normal, and things of course.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are a civilization of extremes; we are one-sided, abnormal; distorted.
- Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
- They are sometimes of abnormal size or stand out from the face.
- Extract from : « Criminal Man » by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
- Her nerves are morbid, her egotism is excessive, her restlessness is abnormal.
- Extract from : « The Man Who Wins » by Robert Herrick
Synonyms for abnormal
- aberrant
- anomalistic
- anomalous
- atypical
- bizarre
- curious
- deviant
- deviate
- deviating
- divergent
- eccentric
- exceptional
- extraordinary
- fantastic
- funny
- grody
- gross
- heteroclite
- heterodox
- heteromorphic
- irregular
- odd
- off-base
- off-color
- out of line
- peculiar
- preternatural
- queer
- screwy
- spastic
- strange
- uncommon
- unexpected
- unnatural
- unorthodox
- unusual
- weird
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