[
UK
/sˈʌbnɔːməl/
]
NOUN
- a person of less than normal intelligence
ADJECTIVE
-
below normal or average
after the floods the harvests were subnormal
subnormal intelligence
How To Use subnormal In A Sentence
- Obviously, then, the average romance reader is not the undereducated, uninformed, subnormal, frustrated housewife of recent mythology.
- -- In myxedema one of the cardinal symptoms is a persistently subnormal temperature and, though prone to infection, subjects of myxedema show but feeble febrile response and readily succumb. The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
- Pregnancies can be established with subnormal parameters, illustrating the importance of the female partner's fertility potential and the fact that an abnormal semen analysis cannot be equated with subfertility.
- This range is broad enough to create a difference between normal tissue glutathione peroxidase and subnormal levels.
- 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. Copper Streak Trail
- I suspect it was in fact a holding pen for all of Brighton's mentally subnormal and alcoholic inhabitants.
- It also gives the medical profession a privileged position in determining who is disabled, as the study and treatment of normal and subnormal human functioning is the specialty of that profession.
- In the production of PT materials, it is often necessary to chemically remove analytes from PT specimens or to dilute the PT material with artificial diluents in order to obtain subnormal target values.
- Stone, a 67-year-old man of low intelligence, partially deaf and almost blind, lived in a house with his mistress Dobinson, who was ineffectual and inadequate, and Stone's subnormal son.
- You are mentally subnormal not unlike Trigg Palin, perhaps this is where your sympathies for this Diva Trollop stems from. Rove: Palin's resignation lacks clear strategy