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- pronunciation:
- nor
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 l
- parts of speech:
- adjective, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective, noun), Word History, Word Builder, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
conforming to a standard, pattern, or general average, or to what is expected; usual; regular.
Normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or 37 degrees Celsius.He gave up his normal life when he became a spy.She wanted to go to a normal school, not this fancy place her parents sent her to.- synonyms:
- average, customary, habitual, natural, ordinary, regular, standard, typical, usual
- antonyms:
- aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, bizarre, deviant, exceptional, freak, malformed, odd, queer, strange, unearthly, unnatural, unusual, weird
- similar words:
- accepted, accustomed, characteristic, conventional, everyday, orthodox, par, quotidian, routine
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| definition 2: |
without mental or emotional disorders; psychologically healthy or average.
She worried about whether her son was normal when he began to engage in strange behavior.The counselor assured her that her fears were normal.- synonyms:
- sane, sound
- similar words:
- healthy, rational, reasonable, right, right-minded
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| definition 3: |
medically or biologically sound in function.
This is the sound of a normal heartbeat.They compared the cancerous tissue with the normal tissue.- synonyms:
- healthy, sound
- similar words:
- fit, right
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| related words: |
customary, lucid, mean, moderate, modest, mundane, prevalent, right, stock, straight, temperate, true, typical |
adverb + (adj.)normal
below, fairly, high, perfectly, seemingly, totally
(adj.)normal
+ noun
activity,
aging,
blood,
cell,
childhood,
cholesterol,
circumstance,
condition,
conversation,
curve,
cycle,
distribution,
dose,
flow,
fluctuation,
function,
functioning,
gait,
galaxy,
gravity,
hearing,
lens,
level,
life,
lifestyle,
limit,
liver,
lung,
metabolism,
mode,
operating,
pace,
pattern,
pregnancy,
procedure,
rainfall,
range,
relation,
rhythm,
routine,
sadness,
schedule,
serum,
span,
stress,
teenager,
temperature,
tissue,
variation,
walking,
wear,
weight
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
the average or expected form, condition, level, or amount; standard.
The temperature was below normal last month.- synonyms:
- average, ordinary, par, standard
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| related words: |
average, mean |
adjective + (n.)normal
adventurous, anterior, low, smooth, tibial
verb + (n.)normal
change, consider, derive, develop, distinguish, include, perform, remain, test, use
noun + (n.)normal
chance, college, comparison, dream, effort, patient, surface
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| derivation: |
normality (n.) |
The word normal comes from a Latin word that means "a carpenter's square."
The word normal
contains the following parts:
norm
Latin
root
that means rule, pattern
  Example words:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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