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Definition of abnormal in English: abnormaladjective əbˈnɔːm(ə)læbˈnɔrməl Deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying. 异常的,反常的(尤指让人不快或焦虑的) the illness is recognizable from the patient's abnormal behaviour 这种疾病可从病人反常的举止中看出。 Example sentencesExamples - Cells normally divide in a controlled way, but abnormal cells keep on dividing, which can form a lump.
- The level was so high that a second reading was taken and although this was lower it was still so abnormal as to be fatal.
- Every episode marked him, though there is no evidence of any abnormal behaviour.
- All women are supposedly naturally maternal and any woman who rejects this role is seen as deviant and abnormal.
- His abnormal memory power is not restricted just to the game, but aids him in his office work.
- Crime, rather than being abnormal and uncommon, may be considered a routine part of life.
- Interferon is produced naturally in the body and helps fight infection or abnormal cells.
- She speculated that abnormal electrical activity in the heart or brain may have been the reason.
- Seabed sensors detect abnormal wave movements and relay the information to scientists.
- As far as I can judge he sees nothing abnormal or peculiar about any part of this routine.
- Some abnormal smears do in fact revert to normal without treatment, but some go on to become cancerous.
- A true food allergy is an abnormal response to a food triggered by the immune system.
- The condition is rare and is caused by the inheritance of an abnormal gene from an affected parent.
- The boy told the court his behaviour had been abnormal and not the sort of thing he wanted to do in the future.
- The demand for tickets had been abnormal, and the committee had to refuse a great number who applied.
- His life has been so abnormal it is no surprise that he has such unusual views.
- Fusion in this case is somewhat of a worry because these are highly abnormal cells.
- The abnormal hike in fuel prices leads to increase in prices of essential commodities.
- My greatest work was the reconstruction of a congenitally abnormal heart.
- MPs live quite an abnormal life, and a lot of the time they are away from home.
Synonyms 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 British out of the common informal funny, oddball, off the wall, wacky, wacko, way out, freaky, kinky
OriginMid 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). Rhymesconformal, formal, normal, paranormal, subnormal Definition of abnormal in US English: abnormaladjectiveæbˈnɔrməlabˈnôrməl Deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying. 异常的,反常的(尤指让人不快或焦虑的) the illness is recognizable from the patient's abnormal behavior 这种疾病可从病人反常的举止中看出。 Example sentencesExamples - Cells normally divide in a controlled way, but abnormal cells keep on dividing, which can form a lump.
- All women are supposedly naturally maternal and any woman who rejects this role is seen as deviant and abnormal.
- The boy told the court his behaviour had been abnormal and not the sort of thing he wanted to do in the future.
- As far as I can judge he sees nothing abnormal or peculiar about any part of this routine.
- Crime, rather than being abnormal and uncommon, may be considered a routine part of life.
- Interferon is produced naturally in the body and helps fight infection or abnormal cells.
- MPs live quite an abnormal life, and a lot of the time they are away from home.
- My greatest work was the reconstruction of a congenitally abnormal heart.
- The abnormal hike in fuel prices leads to increase in prices of essential commodities.
- The demand for tickets had been abnormal, and the committee had to refuse a great number who applied.
- His life has been so abnormal it is no surprise that he has such unusual views.
- His abnormal memory power is not restricted just to the game, but aids him in his office work.
- Some abnormal smears do in fact revert to normal without treatment, but some go on to become cancerous.
- Every episode marked him, though there is no evidence of any abnormal behaviour.
- A true food allergy is an abnormal response to a food triggered by the immune system.
- The condition is rare and is caused by the inheritance of an abnormal gene from an affected parent.
- Seabed sensors detect abnormal wave movements and relay the information to scientists.
- She speculated that abnormal electrical activity in the heart or brain may have been the reason.
- Fusion in this case is somewhat of a worry because these are highly abnormal cells.
- The level was so high that a second reading was taken and although this was lower it was still so abnormal as to be fatal.
Synonyms unusual, uncommon, atypical, untypical, non-typical, unrepresentative, rare, isolated, irregular, anomalous, deviant, deviating, divergent, wayward, aberrant, freak, freakish
OriginMid 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). |