Synonyms: abnormal
Definition: much greater than the normal
Usage: abnormal profits; abnormal ambition
Similar words: immoderate
Definition: beyond reasonable limits
Usage: immoderate laughter; immoderate spending
Definition: not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm
Usage: abnormal powers of concentration; abnormal amounts of rain; abnormal circumstances; an abnormal interest in food
Similar words: aberrant, deviant, deviate
Definition: markedly different from an accepted norm
Usage: aberrant behavior; deviant ideas
Similar words: anomalous
Definition: deviating from the general or common order or type
Usage: advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe
Similar words: antidromic
Definition: conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
Similar words: atypical, irregular
Definition: deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal
Usage: these days large families are atypical; atypical clinical findings; atypical pneumonia; highly irregular behavior
Similar words: brachydactylic, brachydactylous
Definition: having abnormally short finger or toes
Similar words: defective
Definition: markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior
Usage: defective speech
Similar words: freakish
Definition: characteristic of a freak
Usage: a freakish extra toe
Similar words: kinky, perverted
Definition: (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes
Usage: kinky sex; perverted practices
Similar words: subnormal
Definition: below normal or average
Usage: after the floods the harvests were subnormal; subnormal intelligence
Similar words: supernormal
Definition: exceeding the normal or average
Usage: years of supernormal employment during the war; a phase of supernormal excitability
Similar words: vicarious
Definition: occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function
Usage: vicarious menstruation
Synonyms: abnormal
Definition: departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development
Usage: they were heartbroken when they learned their child was abnormal; an abnormal personality
Similar words: exceptional
Definition: deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence
Usage: special educational provisions for exceptional children