Abnormal
adjective
Not usual, not typical, different from normal.
The doctor found some abnormal cells during the check up.
Often appears as...
- abnormal result
- abnormal behavior
adjective
Not working correctly or not as expected.
The machine is experiencing an abnormal shutdown.
Often appears as...
- abnormal shutdown
- abnormal functioning
adjective
Not behaving in a usual or healthy way.
Psychiatrists categorized his behavior as abnormal.
Often appears as...
- abnormal behavior
- abnormal psychology
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Not usual, not typical, different from normal.
The doctor found some abnormal cells during the check up.
Often appears as...
- abnormal result
- abnormal behavior
adjective
Not working correctly or not as expected.
The machine is experiencing an abnormal shutdown.
Often appears as...
- abnormal shutdown
- abnormal functioning
adjective
Not behaving in a usual or healthy way.
Psychiatrists categorized his behavior as abnormal.
Often appears as...
- abnormal behavior
- abnormal psychology
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Often implies something is wrong or undesirable, can carry a negative judgment.
He had an abnormal interest in the macabre.
Pro Tip 2/3Context Matters
The idea of 'abnormal' can change based on societal norms and context.
Her abnormal dress sense became a new fashion trend.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Severity
Describing something as 'abnormal' can suggest a range from slightly odd to extremely serious.
Abnormal weather patterns are causing concern.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Often implies something is wrong or undesirable, can carry a negative judgment.
He had an abnormal interest in the macabre.
Pro Tip 2/3Context Matters
The idea of 'abnormal' can change based on societal norms and context.
Her abnormal dress sense became a new fashion trend.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Severity
Describing something as 'abnormal' can suggest a range from slightly odd to extremely serious.
Abnormal weather patterns are causing concern.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Often implies something is wrong or undesirable, can carry a negative judgment.
He had an abnormal interest in the macabre.
Pro Tip 2/3Context Matters
The idea of 'abnormal' can change based on societal norms and context.
Her abnormal dress sense became a new fashion trend.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Severity
Describing something as 'abnormal' can suggest a range from slightly odd to extremely serious.
Abnormal weather patterns are causing concern.
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Video examples
Should Primates be Kept...
They've seen others that have got these monkeys as pets and they think, Oh, well, I can have a monkey as a pet. What impact does being kept as a pet have on the primate? They can suffer both physically and psychologically. These abnormal behaviours that they have are life long. And is it right that you can even own one in the first place?
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How this disease changes...
And if a child inherits a copy of the mutation from only one parent, there will be just enough abnormal hemoglobin to make life difficult for the malaria parasite, while most of their red blood cells retain their normal shape and function. In regions rife with this parasite, sickle cell mutation offered a serious evolutionary advantage.
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At what moment are you...
doesn't jump-start an inanimate heart, but resynchronizes the muscle cells in an abnormally beating heart so they regain their normal rhythm. This can prevent a person from dying, but it won't raise a dead body, or a monster sewn together from dead bodies. So it would seem that all our various medical miracles
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Can we eat to starve...
affecting more than a billion people worldwide, that all look on the surface to be different from one another, but all actually share abnormal angiogenesis as their common denominator. And this realization is allowing us to re-conceptualize the way that we actually approach these diseases,
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What is bipolar...
These mood stabilizing medications work by decreasing abnormal activity in the brain, thereby strengthening the viable neural connections. Other frequently used medications include antipsychotics, which alter the effects of dopamine, and electroconvulsive therapy,
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Can we eat to starve...
affecting more than a billion people worldwide that all look on the surface to be different from one another but all actually share abnormal angiogenesis as their common denominator in this realization is allowing us to reconceptualize the way that we actually
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The way we think about...
It didn't really faze me; I was still developing my understanding of the world. It wasn't until I got older and realized I didn't fit society's expectations of me, that I didn't belong, that I was abnormal. And that's when the shame started.
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Why some of us don't...
afraid of my own success. If you can relate to my story and to these feelings, I'd like you to ask yourself a question that I wish I had asked myself back then. Ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning of wrong or abnormal
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Greasy Cocaine PIPE...
from reynosa and he said that he had the vehicle for seven months but the guy had no crosses so that that's a little bit suspicious we're gonna do an inspection on the vehicle you look kind of abnormal from the from the right we're
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Crowdfunding urban...
there so we are not making up a top-down plan we are looking what is in the city how can we harness that and how can we get innovation out of that that is not an abnormal thing in the third world this is a true Cairo where in an
Video examples
Should Primates be Kept...
They've seen others that have got these monkeys as pets and they think, Oh, well, I can have a monkey as a pet. What impact does being kept as a pet have on the primate? They can suffer both physically and psychologically. These abnormal behaviours that they have are life long. And is it right that you can even own one in the first place?
Video examples
How this disease changes...
And if a child inherits a copy of the mutation from only one parent, there will be just enough abnormal hemoglobin to make life difficult for the malaria parasite, while most of their red blood cells retain their normal shape and function. In regions rife with this parasite, sickle cell mutation offered a serious evolutionary advantage.
Video examples
At what moment are you...
doesn't jump-start an inanimate heart, but resynchronizes the muscle cells in an abnormally beating heart so they regain their normal rhythm. This can prevent a person from dying, but it won't raise a dead body, or a monster sewn together from dead bodies. So it would seem that all our various medical miracles
Video examples
Can we eat to starve...
affecting more than a billion people worldwide, that all look on the surface to be different from one another, but all actually share abnormal angiogenesis as their common denominator. And this realization is allowing us to re-conceptualize the way that we actually approach these diseases,
Video examples
What is bipolar...
These mood stabilizing medications work by decreasing abnormal activity in the brain, thereby strengthening the viable neural connections. Other frequently used medications include antipsychotics, which alter the effects of dopamine, and electroconvulsive therapy,
Video examples
Can we eat to starve...
affecting more than a billion people worldwide that all look on the surface to be different from one another but all actually share abnormal angiogenesis as their common denominator in this realization is allowing us to reconceptualize the way that we actually
Video examples
The way we think about...
It didn't really faze me; I was still developing my understanding of the world. It wasn't until I got older and realized I didn't fit society's expectations of me, that I didn't belong, that I was abnormal. And that's when the shame started.
Video examples
Why some of us don't...
afraid of my own success. If you can relate to my story and to these feelings, I'd like you to ask yourself a question that I wish I had asked myself back then. Ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning of wrong or abnormal
Video examples
Greasy Cocaine PIPE...
from reynosa and he said that he had the vehicle for seven months but the guy had no crosses so that that's a little bit suspicious we're gonna do an inspection on the vehicle you look kind of abnormal from the from the right we're
Video examples
Crowdfunding urban...
there so we are not making up a top-down plan we are looking what is in the city how can we harness that and how can we get innovation out of that that is not an abnormal thing in the third world this is a true Cairo where in an
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Quote examples
Taylor Swift
American Singer
I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
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Janet Frame
New Zealander Novelist
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
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Isabelle Huppert
French Actress
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
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Elie Wiesel
American Novelist
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
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Johnny Depp
American Actor
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
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Gallagher
American Comedian
I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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Blase J. Cupich
American Clergyman
I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.
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D. B. Sweeney
American Actor
I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
The world is a very abnormal place.
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Taylor Swift
American Singer
I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
Quote examples
Janet Frame
New Zealander Novelist
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
Quote examples
Isabelle Huppert
French Actress
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
Quote examples
Elie Wiesel
American Novelist
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
Quote examples
Johnny Depp
American Actor
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Quote examples
Gallagher
American Comedian
I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
Quote examples
Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Quote examples
Blase J. Cupich
American Clergyman
I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.
Quote examples
D. B. Sweeney
American Actor
I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
Quote examples
Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
The world is a very abnormal place.
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