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. Philip Werthman:

   The important thing for most couples is to realize that the sperm actually do play a very significant role in the fertility process, if someone has an abnormal semen analysis, the recommendations are that the man should get evaluated before they undergo any sort of fertility treatments.

2. Douglas Higgs:

   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.

3. Kevin Stephens:

   Because the UAV was unarmed and posed no risk to the carrier's flight operations (since it wasn't flying at the time), we determined that ... the Iranian UAV's actions posed no danger to the ship, it was however, abnormal and unprofessional.

4. Gordon Muir:

   People have real-life problems because of this, we see guys get to age 40 who've never had a relationship before, because they believe they're abnormal and now doctors can tell them they're normal.

5. 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.