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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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" [syn: abnormal, unnatural] [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"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: alteration of French anormal, from Medieval Latin anormalis, from Latin a- + Late Latin normalis normal Date: circa 1836 deviating from the normal or average ; unusual, exceptional <abnormal behavior> • abnormally adverb II. noun Date: 1912 an abnormal person

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 deviating from what is normal or usual; exceptional. 2 relating to or dealing with what is abnormal (abnormal psychology). Derivatives: abnormally adv. Etymology: earlier and F anormal, anomal f. Gk anomalos ANOMALOUS, assoc. with L abnormis: see ABNORMITY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone or something that is abnormal is unusual, especially in a way that is worrying. (FORMAL) ...abnormal heart rhythms and high anxiety levels. ...a child with an abnormal fear of strangers. ADJ • abnormally ...abnormally high levels of glucose... ADV: usu ADV adj/adv, also ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Irregular, anomalous, anomalistic, unusual, unnatural, singular, peculiar, unconformable, exceptional, heteroclite, aberrant, divergent, eccentric, erratic, strange, monstrous, preternatural.

Moby 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