Definition of Abnormal

Abnormal

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.

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Anomalous, Conformed, Deviating, From, Irregular, Not, Or, Rule, System, The, To, Type

Abnormal Quotations

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl Jung

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy

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.
Johnny Depp

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William James

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
David Herbert Lawrence

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.
Janet Frame

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry B. Adams

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.
Jerry Falwell

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler

Living is abnormal.
Eugene Ionesco

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
Sue Johanson

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
Dirk Benedict

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
Tim Burton

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
George Takei

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers.
Carol Alt

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.
Tom G. Palmer

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.
Isabelle Huppert

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
Ugo Betti

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
Louise Brown

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
Breyten Breytenbach

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
Tom G. Palmer

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.
Giorgio de Chirico

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
Timothy Thomas Fortune

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.
Gilbert Hernandez

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Abnormal Translations

abnormal in Dutch is abnormaal
abnormal in French is rocambolesque
abnormal in Italian is abnorme
abnormal in Portuguese is anormal
abnormal in Spanish is anormal
abnormal in Swedish is onormal, abnorm

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