abnormal
(adjective) much greater than the normal; “abnormal profits”; “abnormal ambition”
abnormal, unnatural
(adjective) 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”
abnormal
(adjective) departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development; “they were heartbroken when they learned their child was abnormal”; “an abnormal personality”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
abnormal (comparative more abnormal, superlative most abnormal)
Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type. [First attested around the mid 19th century.]
Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health. [First attested around the early 20th century.]
• (not conforming to rule or system; deviating from type): aberrant, anomalous, atypical, exceptional, extraordinary, irregular, preternatural, strange, unusual.
abnormal (plural abnormals)
A person or object that is not normal.
Source: Wiktionary
Ab*nor"mal, a. Etym: [For earlier anormal.F. anormal, LL. anormalus for anomalus, Gr. abnormis. See Anomalous, Abnormous, Anormal.]
Definition: Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
