subnormal

IPA: sˈʌbnˈɔrmʌɫ

noun

  • A person whose abilities are less than normal.
  • (geometry) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

adjective

  • Less than normal.
  • (computing theory) denormal
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Examples of "subnormal" in Sentences

  • In some cases, subnormal temperatures signal severe illnesses as well.
  • You are mentally subnormal not unlike Trigg Palin, perhaps this is where your sympathies for this Diva Trollop stems from.
  • How about you, stupid troll whose brain and genitalia need threats to mitigate their subnormal size and decay due to atrophy?
  • 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.
  • • "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."
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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.

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