subnormal

/sʌbˈnɔːm(ə)l/

US pronunciation

American sound/sʌbˈnɔːm(ə)l/

sʌbˈnɔːməl

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Aw vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

sʌb - ˈnɔːməl -> subnormal

Myanmar meaning

အသိဉာဏ်တွင် ပုံမှန်ထက်လျော့နည်းနိမ့်ကျသော။

Full entry

subnormal /sʌb'nↄ:ml/ adj

စံမမီသော။ လူတမ်းမစေ့သော။
ပုံမှန် အောက်ဖြစ်သော။
an educationally subnormal child.

More examples

‘Patients with unilateral or bilateral paralysis have subnormal exercise capacity, and oxygen consumption (normalized by minute ventilation) at peak exercise is increased.’
‘He's a man of limited intelligence, he's got a very subnormal IQ, and they wanted to hang the crime on someone.’
‘Ironically, she had always hated the idea of being a teacher, but after joining the staff of the university's psychiatric clinic, she found herself fascinated by the challenge of educating mentally subnormal children.’
‘My daughter, 37, is severely subnormal and does not speak.’
‘Epilepsy does not shorten life or cause insanity or subnormal intelligence.’
‘Patients exhibit subnormal eye and skin pigmentation due to aberrant melanosome development.’
‘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.’
‘A significant number risk osteoporosis in later life due to subnormal bone density.’
‘Disappointingly, I missed out on subnormal by two points.’
‘This range is broad enough to create a difference between normal tissue glutathione peroxidase and subnormal levels.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘The resolution of the dilemma is for the tax to be based on the highest valued possible current use rather than the actual current use, thus facing the possessor with the need to either shift use or accept a subnormal return.’
‘Aldosterone production is preserved in secondary adrenal failure; renin concentrations will therefore be normal, and Synacthen tests will show a subnormal response to cortisol.’
‘The Likely Lads is noteworthy for being one of the few sitcoms that didn't portray ordinary people as educationally subnormal or criminally minded.’
‘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.’
‘I suspect it was in fact a holding pen for all of Brighton's mentally subnormal and alcoholic inhabitants.’
‘What is not typical may be exceptional, and so better than it; but what is not ‘normal’ is infallibly worse than it - abnormal or subnormal.’
‘Understandably, Roy was extremely worried, not just about the turn of events that day, but because he knew that his son Stephen was educationally subnormal with the mental age of an 11-year-old.’
‘The most obvious example of this is in autistic spectrum disorder - a wide-ranging diagnosis now used for many children who would previously have been diagnosed as subnormal.’

Synonyms

below normal, abnormally low, substandard, abnormal, accessory, adjuvant, amiss, ancillary, arrested, auxiliary, backward, base, baser, behind, below average, below par, birdbrained, blemished, broken, checked, collateral, common, conservative, contemptible, contributory, crude, damaged, defective, deficient, delayed, dense, dependent, dim, dim-witted, diminutive, dopey, dull, dumbbell, dumbo, dumdum, dummy, dwarfed, exceptional, exiguous, faulty, feeble, feeble-minded, flawed, gorked, half-witted, held back, humble, imbecile, impaired, imperfect, inadequate, incomplete, inferior, injured, insignificant, insufficient, junior, lacking, lamebrained, late, lesser, limited, low, low-grade, lower, lowly, meager, mean, mediocre, mentally defective, minor, miserable, modest, moronic, niggardly, not working, numbskull, on the bum, opaque, ordinary, out of order, paltry, pinhead, pitiable, pitiful, plain, poor, reactionary, reduced, retardo, rotten, sappy, satellite, scanty, second-fiddle, second-rate, second-string, secondary, seconds, shabby, shoddy, sick, simple, simple-minded, skimpy, slight, slow, slow-witted, smaller, sorry, sparse, stupid, sub, subaltern, subalternate, subject, submissive, subpar, subservient, subsidiary, substract, supplementary, touched, tributary, trifling, trivial, under, underachieving, underaverage, underdeveloped, underprivileged, undeveloped, unequal, unfinished, unhealthy, unsatisfactory, unsound, valueless, wanting, weak, worthless, yo-yo

Antonyms

able, abnormal, active, adequate, affluent, aggressive, ahead, ample, big, bold, brave, bright, chief, clear, cognizant, developed, developing, enough, excellent, extraordinary, fast, faultless, fertile, first-class, first-rate, flawless, formal, fortunate, forward, great, happy, important, intelligent, large, light, lucky, main, major, necessary, nice, noble, perfect, potent, precocious, primary, quick, refined, rich, significant, smart, sophisticated, sound, source, strong, sufficient, superior, tall, to the front, unbroken, uncommon, unshy, vital, wealthy, well, working

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