subnormal
About 0.56 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Less than normal.
His intelligence was considered subnormal, but as a musician he was a genius.
- adjective denormal
- adjective idiot, stupid.
- noun A person whose abilities are less than normal.
the IQ scores of mental subnormals
- noun That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
- noun Synonym of denormal.
Similar words
abnormal below average substandard underaverage unnormal subpar suboptimal nonabnormal submarginal subphysiological
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Word family
subnormalities subnormality subnormally
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