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subnormal
CIDE DICTIONARY
subnormal, n.
That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
subnormal, adj.
1 (esp. as regards intelligence) below normal.
2 less than normal.
1 (esp. as regards intelligence) below normal.
2 less than normal.
Derivative
subnormality n.
THESAURUS
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, wanderingFor further exploring for "subnormal" in Webster Dictionary Online