normal
Syllables: norm·alUK/ˈnɔː.məl//ˈnoɹ.məl/
normal adjective: according to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Adjective
normal (comparative more normal or (both colloquial) normaler or normaller, superlative most normal or (both colloquial) normalest or normallest)
- According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
- Organize the data into third normal form.
- Prescription drugs, they help me through the day
And that restraining order keeps me well at bay
And what's normal now, anyway?2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring.
- Antonyms:
- unconventional, nonstandard, unusual, special
- In whose representation in a given base b ≥ 2, for every positive integer n, the bⁿ possible strings of n digits follow a uniform distribution.
- A number whose individual digits in a given base representation follow a uniform distribution is said to be simply normal.
- A number that is normal for every base b ≥ 2 is said to be absolutely normal.
- With cosets which form a group.
- Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K.
- Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution.
- Which is pre-compact.
- Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology.
- Which commutes with its conjugate transpose.
- Which commutes with its adjoint.
- Which is the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
- Which contains only normal morphisms.
- In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods.
- Integrally closed: equal its own integral closure in its field of fractions.
- Such that all of its localizations at prime ideals are integrally closed domains.
- Such that the local ring at every point is an integrally closed domain.
- Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.
- John is feeling normal again.
- Synonyms:
- hale, healthy, well, all oak and iron bound, buxom, fit, freck, hail, hale and hearty, in the pink of health
- Teaching teachers how to teach; teaching teachers the norms of education.
- My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School; my grandfather attended Illinois State Normal University.
- PURPOSE AND SCOPE[:] The State Normal College prepares teachers for the public schools of Montana. It accomplishes its work through professional courses, directed observation of expert teaching, and […]1928, Western Montana College, Western Montana College of Education, Catalogue of the Montana State Normal College, page 10
- Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution.
- Describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon.
- In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (a normal mode).
- In the default position, set for the most frequently used route.
- Antonyms:
- reverse
- Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or tangent plane of a surface.
- The interior normal vector of a perfect sphere always point toward the center, and the exterior normal vector directly away, and both are always collinear with the ray whose tip ends at the point of intersection, which is the intersection of all three sets of points.
- Synonyms:
- at right angles to, perpendicular, orthogonal
- Antonyms:
- tangential
Noun
normal (countable and uncountable, plural normals)
- A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.
- A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid.
- Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in...
- A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.
- The usual state.
- I was quite ill for a while, but latterly seem to have returned to normal.
- His workload is now back to normal.
normal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
normal in Hindi
- usual, ordinary
- साधारण sādhāraṇ, ठीक ṭhīk
normal in Tamil
- வழக்கமான, சாதாரணமான, சகசமான, இயல்பான, இயற்கையான, குத்தான
normal in Marathi
- normal
- सामान्य sāmānya
normal in Urdu
- usual, ordinary
- معمولی ma'mūlī, عام 'ām, سادھارن sādhāran
More languagesFewer languages
- normal in Bengali
- নিয়মাফিক বস্তু, নিয়মাফিক নমুনা, লম্ব, সাধারণ
- normal in Malayalam
- സാധാരണ sādhāraṇa
- normal in Kannada
- ಎಂದಿನ, ಯಾವಾಗಿನ, ಬಳಕೆಯ
- normal in Sanskrit
- सामान्य sāmānya
- normal in Nepali
- ठीक ṭhīk, साधारण sādhāraṇ
- normal in Arabic
- عَادِيّ ʕādiyy, طَبِيعِيّ ṭabīʕiyy
- normal in Indonesian
- normal, biasa, sehat
- normal in Persian
- نرمال normâl
- normal in Thai
- ธรรมดา tam-má-daa, ปกติ bpà-gà-dtì, ปรกติ bpròk-gà-dtì
- normal in Vietnamese
- bình thường, pháp tuyến
Examples of normal in a sentence
- Heavy workload is the new normal.
- More than a third of the new flats will be a mix of council rent and "affordable" rent – definitions vary but often this is taken to mean that their cost won't exceed 80% of the normal market rate.2022 October 29, Felix Bazalgette, “'It was more than a pub' – the story of five boozers forced to call last orders”, in Katharine Viner...
- Still, there was a hitch somewhere in the gathering that threw it out of normal.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 269:
Synonyms of normal
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- all oak and iron bound
- fit
- hale and hearty
- in the pink of health
- lusty
- sound
- sound as a barrel
- sound as a bell
- whole
- fanatical
- at right angles to
- perpendicular
- orthogonal
- average
- medial
- basic
- bog-standard
- common
- commonplace
- common-and-garden
- common-or-garden
- congruent
- consistent
- conventional
- everyday
- expected
- garden variety
- improminent
- mundane
- natural
Antonyms
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Forms of normal
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more normal |
| comparative (colloquial) | normaler |
| comparative (colloquial) | normaller |
| superlative (colloquial) | most normal |
| superlative (colloquial) | normalest |
| superlative (colloquial) | normallest |
| Noun | |
| plural | normals |
Origin of normal
From Latin normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square; later: according to a rule”), from nōrma (“carpenter's square”), of uncertain origin; equivalent to norm + -al, doublet of normale. The earliest meaning of the word in English was "perpendicular; forming a right angle" like something normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square”), but by Late Latin normālis had also come to mean "according to a rule", from which modern English senses of the word derive: in the 1800s, as people began to quantitatively study things like height, weight and blood pressure, the usual or most common values came to be called "normal", and by extension values regarded as healthy or desirable came to be called "normal" regardless of their usuality.
Words formed from normal
- abnormal
- algebraic normal form
- antinormal
- Backus normal form
- binormal
- Boyce-Codd normal form
- canonical conjunctive normal form
- canonical disjunctive normal form
- centinormal
- clausal normal form
- conjunctive normal form
- conormal
- Covid normal
- decanormal
- decinormal
- denormal
- disjunctive normal form
- Earth-normal
- equinormal
- extranormal
- fifth normal form
- first normal form
- fourth normal form
- have a normal one
- heteronormal
- hypernormal
- hyponormal
- immunonormal
- lognormal
- log-normal distribution
- malnormal
- millinormal
- multinormal
- new normal
- nonnormal
- normal basis
- normalcy
- normal depth
- normaldom
- normal extension
- normalfag
- normal fault
- normal force
- normal form
- normal form game
- normal for Norfolk
- normal good
- normal histology
- normalhood
- normal hydrogen
- normal hydrogen electrode
- normalise
- normalize
- normalish
- Normal Island
- normalism
- normalist
- normality
- normalization
- normal lens
Phrases with normal
- normal mode
- normal time
- Earth normal
- normal bases
- normal forms
- normal goods
- normal modes
- normal pause
- normal space
- normal depths
- normal faults
- normal forces
42 more phrasesFewer phrases
- normal lenses
- normal pauses
- normal profit
- normal saline
- normal school
- normal spaces
- normal profits
- normal salines
- normal schools
- surface normal
- normal subgroup
- had a normal one
- has a normal one
- normal potential
- normal subgroups
- normal extensions
- normal form games
- normal potentials
- third normal form
- prenex normal form
- second normal form
- third normal forms
- Chomsky Normal Form
- having a normal one
- normal distribution
- second normal forms
- clausal normal forms
- normal distributions
- ring sum normal form
- normal random variable
- normal random variables
- conjunctive normal forms
- skew normal distribution
- skew normal distributions
- normal hydrogen electrodes
- standard normal distribution
- bivariate normal distribution
- standard normal distributions
- bivariate normal distributions
- standard normal random variable
- standard normal random variables
- canonical conjunctive normal forms
Words that rhyme with normal
Questions about normal
- What does normal mean?
- Normal means according to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
- What is normal in Hindi?
- Normal in Hindi is साधारण (sādhāraṇ), ठीक (ṭhīk). See Normal meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use normal in a sentence?
- Heavy workload is the new normal.
- What part of speech is normal?
- Normal can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce normal?
- Normal is pronounced /ˈnɔː.məl/ (UK).
Words near normal in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: normal (page history and authors); normal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सामान्य (Marathi) (page history and authors); normal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); സാധാരണ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); normal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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