English > abnormal: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | not normal; not typical or usual / usual or regular or conforming to a norm. |
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| Examples | - "abnormal powers of concentration"
- "abnormal amounts of rain"
- "abnormal circumstances"
- "an abnormal interest in food"
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| Synonym | unnatural |
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| Attribute of | normality, normalcy | Within certain limits that define the range of normal / normal functioning |
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| Narrower | aberrant, deviant, deviate | markedly different from an accepted norm |
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| anomalous | deviating from the general or common order or type |
| antidromic | Conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal |
| atypical, irregular | Deviating from normal expectations |
| brachydactylic, brachydactylous | Having abnormally short finger or toes |
| defective | markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior |
| freakish | characteristic of a freak |
| kinky, perverted | (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes |
| subnormal | Below normal or average |
| supernormal | Exceeding the normal or average |
| vicarious | Occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function |
| See also | atypical, untypical, atypic | not representative of a group, class, or type |
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| insane | Afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement |
| Opposite | normal | conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm |
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| Spanish | anormal |
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| Catalan | anormal |
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| Nouns | abnormality | behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom / custom or morality |
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| abnormality | an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies |
| Adverbs | abnormally | in an abnormal manner |
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