abnormal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   much greater than the normal

   abnormal profits

2. 2
   adj

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

   they were heartbroken when they learned their child was abnormal

3. 3
   adj

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

   And then after an abnormal meal, which was either a very late breakfast or a very early lunch, they drove on to Victoria Station.

4. 4
   adj

   Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.

   Furuseth was right; I was abnormal, an "emotionless monster," a strange bookish creature, capable of pleasuring in sensations only of the mind.

5. 5
   adj

   not normal

6. 6
   noun

   A person or object that is not normal.

Etymology

From ab- + normal. First attested in 1835, replacing the earlier anormal and even earlier abnormous, from Latin abnormis (“departing from normal”), from either ab- (“away from”) + norma (“rule, norm”), or Ancient Greek ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos).