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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm;
- Example: "abnormal powers of concentration"
- Example: "abnormal amounts of rain"
- Example: "abnormal circumstances"
- Example: "an abnormal interest in food"
[syn: abnormal, unnatural]

2. departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development;
- Example: "they were heartbroken when they learned their child was abnormal"
- Example: "an abnormal personality"

3. much greater than the normal;
- Example: "abnormal profits"
- Example: "abnormal ambition"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Abnormal \Ab*nor"mal\, a. [For earlier anormal, F. anormal, LL.
   anormalus for anomalus, Gr. ?. Confused with L. abnormis. See
   Anomalous, Abnormous, Anormal.]
   Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type;
   anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type;
   anomalous; irregular. " --Froude.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

abnormal
    adj 1: 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" [syn: abnormal, unnatural] [ant:
           normal]
    2: departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and
       development; "they were heartbroken when they learned their
       child was abnormal"; "an abnormal personality" [ant:
       normal]
    3: much greater than the normal; "abnormal profits"; "abnormal
       ambition"


The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

ABNORMAL, adj.  Not conforming to standard.  In matters of thought and
conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be
detested.  Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the
straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself.
Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and
the hope of Hell.