Antonyms for abnormally


Grammar : Adv
Spell : ab-nawr-muhl
Phonetic Transcription : æbˈnɔr məl


Definition of abnormally

Origin :
  • 1835, displaced older abnormous (1742) and rival anormal (1835) under influence of Latin abnormis "deviating from a rule," from ab- "off, away from" (see ab-) + norma "rule" (see norm). The older forms were via Old French anormal (13c.), from Medieval Latin anormalos, from Greek anomalos, from an- "not" + homalos, from homos "same." The Greek word was altered in Latin by association with norma. Related: Abnormally.
  • As in exceptionally : adv unusually
  • As in strangely : adv oddly
  • As in unnaturally : adv unusually
  • As in differently : adv in another way; otherwise
  • As in especially : adv exceptionally, particularly
Example sentences :
  • She also saw that Dick was abnormally excited, and suspected that he had been drinking.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • Dilly was a very little woman, with abnormally long and sinewy arms.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Not a gun will be in sight, and the battery will be abnormally light.
  • Extract from : « Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia » by Various
  • In 15.5% we find trochocephalous or abnormally round heads (index 91).
  • Extract from : « Criminal Man » by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
  • On board the Euphrates Wickham had been abnormally interested in Cressley.
  • Extract from : « A Master of Mysteries » by L. T. Meade
  • Moreover the memory of the hypnotized is, as we saw, abnormally sharpened.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • The fact was—she admitted it—that she was abnormally sensitive.
  • Extract from : « Marriage la mode » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Abnormally tall and broad as he was, he looked in this dress gigantic.
  • Extract from : « A Stable for Nightmares » by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
  • And the same holds good in cases where the calyx is abnormally leafy.
  • Extract from : « Vegetable Teratology » by Maxwell T. Masters
  • His eyes were abnormally large, and round like those of a cat.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe

Synonyms for abnormally

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