| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abnormal, different |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bent, devious, divergent, freaky, heretical, heteroclite, irregular, kinky, off-key, perverse, perverted, preternatural, queer, twisted, unorthodox, unrepresentative, untypical, variant, varying, wandering, wayward, weird |
| Antonyms: | normal, regular, standard, usual |
| Main Entry: | abnormal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | different from standard or norm |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, anomalistic, anomalous, atypical, bizarre, curious, deviant, deviate, deviating, divergent, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, fantastic, funny, grody, gross, heteroclite, heterodox, heteromorphic, irregular, odd, off-base, off-color, out of line, peculiar, preternatural, queer, screwy, spastic, strange, uncommon, unexpected, unnatural, unorthodox, unusual, weird |
| Notes: | abnormal means 'not normal, different from normal' while subnormal means 'below normal' |
| Antonyms: | customary, normal, standard, straight, usual |
| Main Entry: | atypical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonconforming |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, deviant, different, divergent, exceptional, heteroclite, irregular, odd, peculiar, preternatural, strange, unnatural, unrepresentative |
| Antonyms: | conforming, normal, ordinary, standard, typical, usual |
| Main Entry: | delirious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally imbalanced |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, bewildered, confused, crazed, crazy, demented, deranged, deviant, deviate, disarranged, disordered, distracted, disturbed, flipped, flipped out, hallucinatory, incoherent, insane, irrational, lightheaded, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, manic, off one's head, out of one's head, out of one's skull, rambling, raving, unhinged, unreasonable, unsettled, wandering |
| Antonyms: | balanced, collected, normal, sane |
| Main Entry: | exceptional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irregular |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, deviant, distinct, extraordinary, inconsistent, infrequent, notable, noteworthy, odd, peculiar, phenomenal, rare, remarkable, scarce, singular, special, strange, uncommon, uncustomary, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unordinary, unprecedented, unthinkable, unusual |
| Notes: | egregious means conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; exceptional means well above average or surpassing what is common or usual or expected exceptional means 'exceeding the ordinary or expected'; exceptionable refers to something 'liable to objection or rejection' |
| Antonyms: | common, conventional, expected, general, normal, ordinary, regular, unexceptional, usual |
| Main Entry: | irregular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abnormal, peculiar |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, anomalous, atypical, capricious, deviant, different, disorderly, divergent, eccentric, exceptional, extraordinary, immoderate, improper, inappropriate, inordinate, odd, off-key, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unconventional, unique, unnatural, unofficial, unorthodox, unsuitable, unusual |
| Antonyms: | common, conventional, normal, standard, usual |
| Main Entry: | kinky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, perverted |
| Synonyms: | degenerated, depraved, deviant, eccentric, far-out, licentious, odd, outlandish, outre, peculiar, queer, quirky, sick, strange, unconventional, unnatural, unusual, warped, weird |
| Notes: | quirky means strikingly unconventional or given to idiosyncrasies; kinky means showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes - or in small tight curls |
| Antonyms: | clean, decent, ethical, normal, unperverted, usual |
| Main Entry: | mutation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | metamorphosis |
| Synonyms: | alteration, anomaly, change, deviant, deviation, evolution, innovation, modification, mutant, novelty, permutation, transfiguration, transformation, variation, vicissitude |
| Antonyms: | inaction, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | neurotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally maladjusted |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anxious, basket case, bundle of nerves, choked, clutched, compulsive, deviant, disordered, disoriented, distraught, disturbed, erratic, hung up, hysteric, inhibited, manic, nervous, nervous wreck, obsessive, overwrought, psychoneurotic, unhealthy, unstable, upset, uptight, wired |
| Antonyms: | adjusted, balanced, sane, stable |