Abnormal

Definition: Abnormal

Abnormal

Adjective

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".

2. (psychology) departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development; "they were heartbroken when they learned their child was abnormal"; "an abnormal personality".

3. Much greater than the normal; "abnormal profits"; "abnormal ambition".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "abnormal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references)

Etymology: Abnormal \Ab*nor"mal\, adjective. [For earlier anormal. French anormal, Late Latin expression anormalus for anomalus. Confused with Latin abnormis. See Anomalous, Abnormous, Anormal.]. (references)

Satire

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Insanity

Noun: disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder.

Unconformity

Adjective: 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.

Crosswords: Abnormal

German (abnormal, abnormally), Indonesian (abnormal, morbid), Swedish (abnorm).

That's abnormal. (Rear Window; writing credit: John Michael Hayes; Cornell Woolrich)

You make it sound abnormal. (Gimme, Gimme, Gimme; writing credit: Jonathan Harvey)

The barbarities of war are seldom committed by abnormal men. The tragedy of war is that these horrors are committed by normal men in abnormal situations ('Breaker' Morant; writing credit: Kenneth Ross; Jonathan Hardy)

But you're better then normal, You're abnormal! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Pathological states can induce abnormal strength (The Exorcist; writing credit: William Peter Blatty)

The lab test indicated abnormal lover function. (references; author: unknown)

The Abnormal Female (1969)

Abnormal Man (1994)

Cho abnormal sex: hentai mamire (1993)

Abnormal Encounters (1993)

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Books

• Abnormal Pap Smears: What Every Woman Needs to Know (reference)

• Abnormal Psychology (reference)

• Abnormal Psychology (Harpercollins College Outline) (reference)

• Casebook in Abnormal Psychology (reference)

• Study Guide for Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of Abnormal Child Psychology (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Abnormal Man (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Abnormal (reference)

• Abnormal Anonymous (reference)

• Abnormal Love (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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PET scans at the level of the basal ganglia of a normal control (1) case 1 at the start (2) and after treatment with AZT (3). In (1) there is a homogeneous pattern of glucose metabolism in the frontal, temporal and occipital cortex and in the subcortical grey matter. At the onset of treatment with AZT (2) there is a heterogeneous pattern of glucose metabolism with a relative reduction in the posterior temporal and occipital regions and the thalamus. Thirteen weeks after treatment with AZT, the abnormal pattern has partly resolved (3). All images are scaled from zero to 100% of the maximum activity within the slice (scale shown on right of figure). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Shown is a mammogram of a normal fatty breast, typical of older women. Diagnosis of abnormal lesions or cancer is more accurate in non-dense breasts. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

This abnormal mammogram is not necessarily cancerous. Also seen are calcifications through ductal patterns. Patient would be avised to have follow-up at 3-month intervals. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

An illustration comparing a normal Chromosome 11 and an abnormal Chromosome 11 with the deleted segment that causes Wilms' tumor. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Sideroblasts are erythroblasts with fine, iron-containing granules in the cytoplasm. Normal sideroblasts show random iron deposits, typically 1-5, in the cytoplasm. Abnormal sideroblasts show an increase of granular iron deposits around the nucleus. Credit: CDC.

Proliferative retinopathy, an advanced form of diabetic retinopathy, occurs when abnormal new blood vessels and scar tissue form on the surface of the retina. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

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I will here tabulate the passages, in both Volumes, where abnormal states occur

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Health

Abnormal tissue growth. (references)

Certain blood tests are abnormal. (references)

The first sign is an abnormal head shape. (references)

Business

The prices of large capacity HDDs dropped sharply during the March - September 2000 period from W100,000/120,000 to W93,000/W105,000 for 8-10GB HDDs (5,400rpm), from W200,000 to W121,000 for 20GB HDDs (5,400rpm), and from W200,000 to W150,000 for 30GB HDDs (5,400rpm). The influx of "gray products" (products imported and sold through abnormal channels), mostly of Quantum, Maxtor, and Fujitsu, has also played an important role in lowering the domestic prices of high capacity HDDs. HDDs will continue to be in high demand through 2001 even though the prices of their competitive products, CD-RW drives and DVD ROM drives, will also keep dropping. (references)

Civil Liberties

Angola

The Government placed no abnormal visa restrictions on foreign journalists and allowed them freedom to report on all aspects of society. (references)

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Expressions using "abnormal": abnormal child ♦ abnormal condition ♦ abnormal curve ♦ abnormal end ♦ abnormal failure ♦ abnormal frequency of urination ♦ Abnormal Pap Smear ♦ abnormal psychology ♦ abnormal returns ♦ abnormal scour ♦ abnormal steel ♦ abnormal termination. Additional references.

Beginning with "abnormal": abnormal-normal, abnormal-normals.

Afrikaans

abnormaal. (various references)

Albanian

jonormal (aberrant, preternatural), i parregullt (erratic, inconsistent, incorrect, irregular, out), gjigant (gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantesque, gigantic, huge, monster). (various references)

Arabic 

‏شاذ مختل العقل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

необичаен (bastard, exceeding, out, out of the ordinary, out of the way, outlandish, rare, special, unaccustomed, uncanny, unconventional, uncouth, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted), неправилен (anomalous, awry, defective, erroneous, false, faulty, improper, incorrect, injudicious, irregular, lame, mis-, mistaken, unequal, unfair, untrue, vicious, wrongful), анормален (aberrant, freak), противоестествен (unnatural). (various references)

Chinese 

變態 (anomalous, metamorphosis), 反常 (freak), 不正常 , 不對 (amiss, incorrect, queer, wrong). (various references)

Czech

abnormální (deviant, unnatural), nenormální, mimořádný (associate, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, phenomenal, special, uncommon). (various references)

Danish

uregelmæssig (irregular). (various references)

Dutch

abnormaal. (various references)

Esperanto

abnorma, neregula, nenormala. (various references)

Farsi 

ناهنجار (Backhand, Dissonant, Gruff, Inelegant, Lumpy, Maladroit, Malformed, Nefarious, Raucous, Rough, Surly, Timber, Uncouth, Unkempt), غیرعادی (Anomalous, Extraordinary, Irregular, Prodigious, Queer, Unco, Uncommon, Unusual, Unwonted, Utter). (various references)

Finnish

abnormi, tavallisuudesta poikkeava (exceptional, extraordinary, out of the ordinary), säännötön (irregular), luonnoton (affected, unnatural), epänormaalinen, epänormaali. (various references)

French

anormal. (various references)

German

abnormal (abnormally), unnormal, anormal (aberrant, abnormally, anomalous), abartig (deviant, perverse, sick, warped). (various references)

Greek 

υπερβολικόσ (exceeding, excess, exorbitant, extravagant, fulsome, hyperbolic, immoderate, inordinate, profuse in, rampant, rank, steep, undue, vaulting, whopping), ασυνήθησ (extraordinary, odd, singular, uncommon, unconventional, unfamiliar, unusual, unwonted), ανώμαλοσ (aberrant, anomalous, bumpy, irregular, rough, rugged, scraggly, spotty, uneven), ανώμαλος (anomalous, irregular), αντικανονικόσ (recusant), αφύσικοσ (absonant, constrained, freakish, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural), διεστραμένοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לא תקין, לא � ורמלי. (various references)

Hungarian

rendellenes (anomalous, atypical, displacement, irregular, perverse), abnormális (anomalous). (various references)

Icelandic

óvanlegur. (various references)

Indonesian

aneh (irregular, mysterious, odd, oddly, peculiar, queer, strange, unnatural, unusual), abnormal (morbid), tidak biasa, ganjil (odd, peculiar, queer, uneven). (various references)

Italian

anormale (irregular), abnorme (abnormally, bastardly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

病的 , 普通でない , 左巻き (counterclockwise, eccentric), 変態的 , アフリカ民族会議 (a priori, abseiling, absinthe, absolutism, abstract, abstract art, abstraction, adding sounds to a soundtrack after a film has been made, African National Congress, Afro, Afro-Cuban rhythm, Afro-hair, ahead, ANC, APL, application, application program, application software, apply, approach, approach light, approach shot, apres-guerre, apricot, dubbing, lowering on a rope, postlooping, postrecording, postsynchronization), 並外れ (extraordinary, far above the average, out of the common, unreasonable), 並み外れ (extraordinary, far above the average, out of the common, unreasonable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なみはずれ (extraordinary, far above the average, out of the common, unreasonable), びょうてき, ひ� りまき (counterclockwise, eccentric), ふつうでない, アブノーマル , へ�"たいてき. (various references)

Korean 

이상한 (Queer). (various references)

Manx

neureilt (haphazard), anreiltagh (anarchic, anarchical). (various references)

Papiamen

apnormal, iregular (irregular). (various references)

Pig Latin

abnormalay.(various references)

Portuguese

anormal (defective, unnatural). (various references)

Romanian

anormal (abnormally, anomalous, monstrous, prodigious), necorespunzãtor (ill, improper, inadequate, inappropriate, incommensurate, incongruous, unsatisfactory). (various references)

Russian 

отклоняющийся от нормы (erratic), ненормальный (anomalous, bughouse, crackpot, deranged, deviant, insane, possessed, screwy, whacky), аварийный (emergency, wreck), аномальный (anomalistic, anomalous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

abnormalan, nenormalan (aberrant, unnatural). (various references)

Spanish

anormal (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, defective, freak, freakish, irregular, unnatural), irregular (aberrant, fitful, irregular, uneven). (various references)

Swedish

abnorm (aberrant, deformed, freak, freakish), onormal (freak, steep). (various references)

Turkish

anormal (aberrant, anomalous, freak, freakish, preternatural, unnatural). (various references)

Turkmen 

юumroя (deformed, ugly). (various references)

Ukrainian

ненормальний (anamorphous, anomalous, bugs, cracked, cracky, deranged, non-conventional, screwy, unsound), анормальний, аномальний (anomalistic, anomalous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không bình thường, khác thường; dị thường. (various references)

Welsh

annormal (inverted), anghyffredin (rare, uncommon). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "abnormal": abnormalities, abnormality, abnormally, abnormals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Abnormal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abdnormal, abnomal, abnorm, abnorma, abnormals, abnornal, aboral, adnormal, anormal, anormaly. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: aboral, amoral, barman, bromal, normal.

-3 letters: aboma, alamo, alarm, aroma, banal, baron, bolar, boral, labor, labra, lobar, loran, malar, manor, molar, moral, roman.

-4 letters: alan, alar, alba, alma, ambo, anal, anoa, baal, balm, barm, barn, blam, boar, bola, bora, born, bran, lama, lamb, loam, loan, lorn, maar, mana, mano, marl, moan, mola, mora.

+1 letter: abnormals, myrobalan.

+2 letters: abnormally, myrobalans.

+3 letters: abnormality.

+4 letters: elasmobranch, incomparable, incomparably, microbalance, normalizable.

+5 letters: abnormalities, antimicrobial, combinatorial, elasmobranchs, malabsorption, microbalances, neuroblastoma, noncomparable, nonmeasurable, perambulation, transformable.