This is another in our series of articles on 1,000 useful words for IELTS, TOEFL and Academic vocabulary.

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Part of speech/ type of word: Abnormal is an adjective.

Meaning:

Very different to what is normal.

It is generally negative, but can sometimes be used in a positive context but indicates something is strange and unusual.

Examples:

1. His rude behaviour that day is not typical and he was behaving abnormally. Usually he is very polite.

2. She had abnormal levels of sodium in her body due to her consuming too much salty liquids.

Here is our video on this word:

The noun of abnormal is ‘abnormality’.

Here are some more examples for a more academic context useful for IELTS or TOEFL.

1. When further investigation and analysis was carried out in to the results a number of abnormalities were found.
2. Due to a government neglect the area suffered from an abnormally high level of crime.

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