abnormal

Meanings

Adjective

• Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
• Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.

Noun

• A person or object that is not normal.

Related

Similar words

• aberrant, anomalous, atypical, exceptional, extraordinary, irregular, preternatural, strange, unusual.

Origin

• From ab- + normal. First attested in 1835, replacing the earlier anormal and even earlier abnormous, from Latin abnormis, from either (ab- + norma), or Ancient Greek ἀνώμαλος
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