Subnormal

3 definitions found

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

  Subnormal \Sub*nor"mal\, n. (Geom.)
     That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted
     between the ordinate and the normal.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  subnormal
       adj : below normal or average; "after the floods the harvests were
             subnormal"; "subnormal intelligence"
       n : a person of less than normal intelligence

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

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "subnormal":
     aberrant, abnormal, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, arrested,
     babbling, backward, blithering, burbling, crackbrained, cracked,
     crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, deviative, different, dithering,
     divergent, driveling, drooling, eccentric, erratic, formless,
     half-baked, half-witted, heteroclite, heteromorphic, idiotic,
     imbecile, imbecilic, irregular, low, maundering,
     mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped,
     mentally retarded, mongoloid, moronic, not all there, retarded,
     shapeless, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, stray,
     straying, subpar, unnatural, wandering