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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subnormal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
educationally
▪ It provides special education, as noted in Chapter 4, for educationally subnormal children and for those previously described as ineducable.
▪ More than half the total number were categorized as educationally subnormal.
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▪ A great deal hangs upon the species difference, the human capacity of the less subnormal, and the potentiality of normal infants.
▪ Consent can not be given by a child, for example, or by a severely subnormal individual.
▪ I forgave him for the many occasions on which he had unthinkingly made me feel mentally subnormal.
▪ It is unclear what standard of consent should be employed with respect to children or those of subnormal intelligence.
▪ It provides special education, as noted in Chapter 4, for educationally subnormal children and for those previously described as ineducable.
▪ More than half the total number were categorized as educationally subnormal.
▪ The authorities treat the children as subnormal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subnormal

Subnormal \Sub*nor"mal\, n. (Geom.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subnormal

1875, from sub- + normal. The noun is from 1710 in geometry; 1916, of persons.

Wiktionary
subnormal

a. 1 Less than normal. 2 (context computing theory English) denormal n. (context geometry English) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

WordNet
subnormal

n. a person of less than normal intelligence

subnormal

adj. below normal or average; "after the floods the harvests were subnormal"; "subnormal intelligence"

Wikipedia
Subnormal

Subnormal may refer to:

  • subnormal body temperature, a common term for hypothermia
  • subnormal operator, a type of operator in operator theory in mathematics
  • subnormal number, another name for a denormal number in floating point arithmetic
  • subnormal profit, which is negative profit (economics)
  • subnormal series, a type of subgroup series in group theory in mathematics
  • subnormal subgroup, a type of subgroup in group theory in mathematics
  • The projection of a normal of a curve onto the x-axis, see subtangent.

Usage examples of "subnormal".

Dogged biometricians had pointed out with irrefutable logic that mental subnormals were outbreeding mental normals and supemormals, and that the process was occurring on an exponential curve.

Dogged biometricians had pointed out with irrefutable logic thai mental subnormals were outbreeding mental normals and supernormal and that the process was occurring on an exponential curve.

Research protocols no longer only explained hereditary differences and racial subtypes, but now directed public policy on how to screen for the racial quality of given populations and rid the society of subnormal racial categories.

The butler looks to me a bit of a rascal, and that parlormaid is definitely subnormal.

An android, no matter how gifted as to pure intellectual capacity, could make no sense out of the fusion which took place routinely among the followers of Mercerism — an experience which he, and virtually everyone else, including subnormal chickenheads, managed with no difficulty.

On giving him an eye test I found the vision of that eye subnormal in all ways.

The only survivors of that would have been mental subnormals, mutants that hadn't been killed because their Protectors had gone off to war.