Synonyms for abnormal
æbˈnɔr məlab·nor·mal

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1. abnormaladjective

   Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.

   Synonyms:
   strange, odd, irregular, anomalous, exceptional, extraordinary, aberrant, unusual

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1. abnormal

   Synonyms:
   exceptional, irregular, monstrous, peculiar, rare, singular, uncommon, unprecedented, unusual

   Antonyms:
   common, natural, normal, ordinary, regular, typical, usual

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1. abnormal

   Synonyms:
   irregular, erratic, peculiar, unusual, exceptional, monstrous, aberrant, devious, divergent, eccentric, strange

   Antonyms:
   typical, normal, regular, ordinary, usual, natural, customary, illustrative

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1. abnormal, unnaturaladjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   affected, unnatural

   Antonyms:
   normal, moderate, average, natural, typical, modal(a), median(a), mean(a), regular

2. abnormaladjective

   departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development

   "they were heartbroken when they learned their child was abnormal"; "an abnormal personality"

   Synonyms:
   unnatural

   Antonyms:
   mean(a), average, typical, modal(a), normal, moderate, regular, median(a), natural

3. abnormaladjective

   much greater than the normal

   "abnormal profits"; "abnormal ambition"

   Synonyms:
   unnatural

   Antonyms:
   average, mean(a), normal, median(a), modal(a), typical, natural, regular, moderate

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1. • Psychology

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1. abnormaladjective

   Synonyms:
   irregular, anomalous, anomalistic, unusual, unnatural, singular, peculiar, unconformable, exceptional, heteroclite, aberrant, eccentric, erratic, strange, monstrous, preternatural

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1. abnormaladjective

   Synonyms:
   anomalous, irregular, exceptional, aberrant, erratic, unusual

   Antonyms:
   normal

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1. List of paraphrases for "abnormal":

   anomalous, unusual, unnatural, aberrant, irregular, anomaly, deviant, freaking, abnormality

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1. John Higgins:

   There's been several cases described of people that have gone into cardiac arrest after consuming more than one energy beverage, and when they've done sort of further analysis on these individuals, they haven't been able to find anything abnormal other than the very high levels of caffeine and taurine in the toxicology, in one case, a young 28-year-old who drunk eight cans of an energy drink actually went into cardiac arrest, and they found John Higgins arteries of John Higgins heart were completely locked up. When they were able to open them up, all the testing revealed nothing wrong with this person other than he had high levels of caffeine and taurine.

2. Mila Kunis:

   He was huge because you couldn’t walk down the street with him, he always had this weird (attraction) ... fans just screamed — they didn’t know how to react. It wasn’t like a normal response to a celebrity. The fans responded in a very abnormal way to him.

3. Vance Havner:

   The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

4. Douglas Higgs:

   Even though this is the best we can achieve at the moment, not all patients become free of transfusions and we still do not know the long-term effects of manipulating the genome of stem cells in this way, a major question hanging over this approach, which is hugely expensive, is whether this procedure, which involves killing off abnormal stem cells to replace them with modified stem cells, will ever become clinically possible in developing countries where the majority of these disorders of hemoglobin occur.

5. Milton Waner:

   It’s clearly a genetic abnormality, but the abnormal gene was not throughout his entire body— only in a certain region of the face.