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abnormal adjective [ abˈnɔːm(ə)l ]

• deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying.
• "the illness is recognizable from the patient's abnormal behaviour"
Similar: unusual, uncommon, atypical, untypical, non-typical, unrepresentative, rare, isolated, irregular, anomalous, deviant, deviating, divergent, wayward, aberrant, freak, freakish, strange, odd, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, queer, eccentric, idiosyncratic, quirky, unexpected, unfamiliar, unconventional, surprising, unorthodox, singular, exceptional, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, out of the way, unnatural, perverse, perverted, twisted, warped, corrupt, unhealthy, distorted, malformed, out of the common, funny, oddball, off the wall, wacky, wacko, way out, freaky, kinky, backasswards,
Opposite: normal, typical, common,
Origin: mid 19th century: alteration (by association with Latin abnormis ‘monstrous’) of 16th-century anormal, from French, variant of anomal, via Latin from Greek anōmalos (see anomalous).


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