Abnormal

English

Adjective

Abnormal (comparative more Abnormal, superlative most Abnormal)

1. Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
2. Of or pertaining to behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.

Noun

Abnormal (plural Abnormals)

1. A person or object that is not normal.

Adverbs for Abnormal

grotesquely; distressingly; painfully; pitiably; noticeably; hideously; undoubtedly; positively; emotionally; markedly; patently; harmlessly; mildly; slightly; entirely; admittedly; grievously; repulsively; shockingly.

Synonyms for Abnormal

unusual, unnatural, aberrant, irregular, odd, erratic, anomalous.

Antonyms for Abnormal

normal, usual, standard, customary.

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

A replacement for the earlier anormal, from French anormal, Late Latin anormalus for Ancient Greek ἀνώμαλος (anōmalos, “uneven, unequal”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /æbˈnɔɹməl/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)məl

Synonyms

• (not conforming to rule or system; deviating from type): aberrant, anomalous, exceptional, extraordinary, irregular, odd, strange, unusual.

Translations

not conforming to rule or system

Bulgarian: неправилен (bg), необичаен (bg), ненормален (bg), противоестествен (bg) Croatian: ȁbnormālan (hr) Danish: unormal (da), abnorm (da) Dutch: abnormaal (nl) Finnish: epänormaali (fi), poikkeava (fi) German: unnormal (de), ungewöhnlich (de)

Italian: anormale (it), anomalo (it) Japanese: 不自然な (fushizen na); 異常な (ijō na) Norwegian: abnorm (no), anormal (no), unormal (no) Portuguese: anormal (pt) Romanian: anormal (ro) m. and n., nenormal (ro) m. and n. Spanish: anormal (es) Swedish: onormal (sv)

of or pertaining to behaviour that deviates from norms

Croatian: ȁbnormālan (hr) Danish: unormal (da), anormal (da), abnorm (da) Dutch: abnormaal (nl) Finnish: epänormaali (fi), poikkeava (fi) German: anormal (de), abnormal (de)

Italian: anormale (it), anomalo (it) Japanese: 異常な (ijō na) Norwegian: abnorm (no), anormal (no), unormal (no) Portuguese: anormal (pt) Romanian: anormal (ro) m. and n., nenormal (ro) m. and n. Spanish: anormal (es) Swedish: abnorm (sv) Esperanto: nenormala French: anormal Interlingua: anormal Malayalam: അസാധാരണം (asaadhaaraNam) Mandarin: 不正常 Swedish: abnorm Volapük: nenomik Turkish: anormal Vietnamese: không bình thường, khác thường, dị thường

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Adjective

Abnormal (comparative abnormaler, superlative am abnormalsten)

1. abnormal