abnormal

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ab=nor=mal

CIDE DICTIONARY

abnormal, 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.  Froude.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

abnormal, adj.
1 deviating from what is normal or usual; exceptional.
2 relating to or dealing with what is abnormal (abnormal psychology).

Derivative

abnormally adv.

Etymology

earlier and F anormal, anomal f. Gk anomalos ANOMALOUS, assoc. with L abnormis: see ABNORMITY

DEVIL DICTIONARY

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.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

abnormal

Unconformity

N unconformity, nonconformity, unconformity, disconformity, unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly, anomalousness, exception, peculiarity, infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage, teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity, freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant, rouser, snorter, individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism, aberration, irregularity, variety, singularity, exemption, salvo, nonconformist, nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish, mongrel, random breed, half-caste, half-blood, half-breed, metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto, tertium quid, hermaphrodite, phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur, griffin, griffon, centaur, saggittary, kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent, mermaid, merman, merfolk, unicorn, Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders, teratology, fish out of water, neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring, one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand, outcast, outlaw, off the beaten track, oasis, uncomformable, exceptional, abnormal, abnormous, anomalous, anomalistic, out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element, irregular, arbitrary, teratogenic, lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton, peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious, out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run, beyond the pale of, out of the pale of, misplaced, funny, unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon, rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, strange, monstrous, wonderful, unexpected, unaccountable, outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy, queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis, unfashionable, fantastic, grotesque, bizarre, outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural, denaturalized, heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid, androgynous, androgynal, asymmetric, adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous, qualified, singular, unique, one-of-a-kind, newfangled, novel, non-classical, original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar, undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled, unconformably, except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone, however, yet, but, once in a blue moon, once in a million years, Int, what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that?, Sacre bleu, never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like, I could hardly believe it, I saw it, but I didn't believe it.