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Abnormally

Abnormally \Ab*nor"mal*ly\, adv. In an abnormal manner; irregularly.
--Darwin.

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abnormally

adv. In an abnormal manner; in a way that deviates from a standard, norm, or average. (First attested in the mid 19th cnetury.)(R:SOED5: page=6)

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abnormally

adv. in an abnormal manner; "they were behaving abnormally"; "his blood pressure was abnormally low"

Usage examples of "abnormally".

If this region is largely developed, the constitution is languid, inefficient, sensitive, and abnormally disposed.

The results are abnormally developed brains, delicate forms, sensitive nerves and shortened lives.

It is useful in those diseases in which the fluids of the body are abnormally acid, as in rheumatism.

It is one of a small group of diseases characterized by the production of abnormally high quantities of urine, so that water seemed simply to pass through the body in a hurry.

The most serious variety of the disease is characterized by an abnormally sweet urine.

The secretion of TSH can, as a result, be abnormally high and the thyroid kept needlessly, and even harmfully, overactive.

When this happens, water is not properly reabsorbed in the kidney tubules and urination becomes abnormally copious.

Children who at the babbling stage are not exposed to the sounds of actual speech may not develop the ability to speak later, or do so to an abnormally limited extent.

The aspect of the whole was abnormally life-like, and the more subtly fearful because its source was so totally unknown.

He had given the name of Stanley Adams, and had had such a queerly thick droning voice, that it made the clerk abnormally dizzy and sleepy to listen to him.

Once in a while, though, there would be glimpses of the sun--which looked abnormally large--and of the moon, whose markings held a touch of difference from the normal that I could never quite fathom.

He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms which I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon.

He was apparently about thirty years old, with a sallow, olive complexion and fairly good features, but an abnormally high forehead.

The baying was very faint now, and it ceased altogether as I approached the ancient grave I had once violated, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which had been hovering curiously around it.

Despite a conservative training--or because of it, for humdrum lives breed wistful longings of the unknown--he swore a great oath to scale that avoided northern cliff and visit the abnormally antique gray cottage in the sky.