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abnormally

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ab·nor·mal  (b-nôrml)
adj.
Not typical, usual, or regular; not normal; deviant.
[Alteration (influenced by ab-) of obsolete anormal, from Medieval Latin anormlis, blend of Late Latin abnormis (Latin ab-, away from; see ab-1 + Latin norma, rule; see gn- in Indo-European roots) and anmalus; see anomalous.]
ab·normal·ly adv.
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Adv.1.abnormally - in an abnormal manner; "they were behaving abnormally"; "his blood pressure was abnormally low"
abnormally
adverb unusually, oddly, strangely, extremely, exceptionally, extraordinarily, overly, excessively, peculiarly, particularly, bizarrely, disproportionately, singularly, fantastically, unnaturally, uncannily, inordinately, uncommonly, prodigiously, freakishly, atypically, subnormally, supernormally


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There is another young lady here, who is less abnormally developed than the one I have just described, but who yet bears the stamp of this peculiar combination of incompleteness and effeteness.
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