subnormal

Less than normal.

Adjective

  1. Less than normal.
    • Near-synonym: below average
    • His intelligence was considered subnormal, but as a musician he was a genius.

    Synonyms: below average

    Antonyms: supernormal

  2. denormal
    • Subnormal numbers cannot be normalized because this would result in an exponent that does not fit into the exponent field. - 2007, Ward Cheney, David Kincaid, Numerical mathematics and computing, page 704:
  3. idiot, stupid.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Latin norma Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin nōrmālisder. English normal English subnormal From sub- + normal.

Forms

more subnormal most subnormal

Derived

subnormality subnormally

Noun

  1. A person whose abilities are less than normal.
    • the IQ scores of mental subnormals
  2. That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
  3. Synonym of denormal.

    Synonyms: denormal

Forms

subnormals