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comparative more abnormal, superlative most abnormal
Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type. quotations examples
And then after an abnormal meal, which was either a very late breakfast or a very early lunch, they drove on to Victoria Station.
1899, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 6, in A Duet
Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health. quotations examples
Furuseth was right; I was abnormal, an "emotionless monster," a strange bookish creature, capable of pleasuring in sensations only of the mind.
1904, Jack London, chapter 23, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap
Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161
plural abnormals
A person or object that is not normal. examples