subnormal Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person of less than normal intelligence
  2. adjective satellite below normal or average
    • after the floods the harvests were subnormal
    • subnormal intelligence

WordNet


Sub*nor"mal noun
Definitions
  1. (Geom.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

Webster 1913