Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Less than normal; below the average.
- noun One who is regarded as subnormal in some respect, such as in intelligence or coordination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Less than normal: abnormal by defect or deficiency.
- In mathematics, cut off by the normal.
- noun That part of the axis of a bscissas of a curve which is intercepted between the normal and the ordinate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Less than
normal . - adjective computing theory
denormal - noun geometry That part of the
axis of acurved line which isintercepted between theordinate and thenormal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person of less than normal intelligence
- adjective below normal or average
Etymologies
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Examples
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That, though the occupations named are entirely normal to all well-ordered states, descendants of persons in those occupations tend to become "subnormal" -- so runs the cant of it -- something handicapped by that haphazard bullet of a lifetime since, fired to advance the glorious cause of -- foreign commerce, or the like.
Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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If the temperature is subnormal, that is, below the normal or regular body temperature, the packs should be applied in such a manner that a warming effect is produced, that is, less wet cloths and more dry covering should be used, and the packs left on the body
Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893
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In some cases, subnormal temperatures signal severe illnesses as well.
January « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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How about you, stupid troll whose brain and genitalia need threats to mitigate their subnormal size and decay due to atrophy?
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In some cases, subnormal temperatures signal severe illnesses as well.
The Trouble with Numbers « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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In part this is encouraged by schools, whose agenda of testing, leveling, and standardized scoring concerns many parents and leads them to fear that their children are somehow subnormal or failing.
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You are mentally subnormal not unlike Trigg Palin, perhaps this is where your sympathies for this Diva Trollop stems from.
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Her tentacular contempt for Shakespeare and Beethoven and Karl Marx and facial hair and government and “subnormal” children and the poor and the Baby Jesus and the U.N. and homosexuals and “simpering” social workers and French Impressionism and a thousand other things the flesh is heir to: experience?
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• "It does not concern me if Her Present Majesty is not a woman of great intellectual distinction – after all, our last monarch who did not at least border on the subnormal was James I, and he was a Scotchman without potty training."
Hugh Muir's Diary 2011
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Her tentacular contempt for Shakespeare and Beethoven and Karl Marx and facial hair and government and “subnormal” children and the poor and the Baby Jesus and the U.N. and homosexuals and “simpering” social workers and French Impressionism and a thousand other things the flesh is heir to: experience?
apparently GQ wrote me a birthday present. . . « paper fruit 2009
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