subnormal
Americanadjective
noun
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a subnormal person.
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Geometry. that part of the x-axis of a curve cut off between the ordinate and a normal.
adjective
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less than the normal
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having a low intelligence, esp having an IQ of less than 70
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The judge said subnormal intelligence is just one consideration in a competency decision.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 2018
He said Evans was not "subnormal", nor schizophrenic, nor epileptic.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2017
“China should accept the new normal of slower trend growth. But in doing so, it should not fall prey to a new subnormal of below-trend growth.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2015
Many trials of vitamins and minerals are performed on the population at large instead of on a subpopulation with subnormal levels of those substances.
From Forbes ● Aug. 27, 2014
Sometimes we were accused of biting human children; I didn’t believe that, nor did any of us—unless it was some kind of a subnormal rat, bred in the worst of city slums.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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