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SUBNORMAL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person of less than normal intelligence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("subnormal" is a kind of...):

simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)

Derivation:

subnormal (below normal or average)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Below normal or average

Example:

subnormal intelligence

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

abnormal; unnatural (not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

Derivation:

subnormal (a person of less than normal intelligence)

subnormality (lack of normal development of intellectual capacities)

subnormality (the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence))

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