Abnormal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  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.