Word Meanings - NORMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal. (more info) square; prob. akin to noscere to know; cf. Gr. normal. See Known, and 1. According to an established norm, rule,

Additional info about word: NORMAL

According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle. Specifically: Of or pertaining to a normal. (more info) square; prob. akin to noscere to know; cf. Gr. normal. See Known, and 1. According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical. Deviations from the normal type. Hallam.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NORMAL)

• Just
• Exact
• fitting
• true
• fair
• proportioned
• harmonious
• honest
• reasonable
• sound
• honorable
• normal
• impartial
• equitable
• upright
• regular
• orderly
• lawful
• right
• righteous
• proper
• Legitimate
• Allowable
• licit
• real
• genuine
• fairly deduced
• Natural
• Intrinsic
• eventual
• cosmical
• probable
• consistent
• spontaneous
• unless
• original
• Regular
• Customary
• ordinary
• stated
• recurrent
• periodical
• systematic
• methodic
• established
• recognized
• formal
• symmetrical
• certain
• Seasonable
• Convenient
• fit
• grateful
• welcome
• timely
• suitable
• opportune

Related words: (words related to NORMAL)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• INTRINSICAL
  1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton.
• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• SPONTANEOUS
  1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• DEDUCTIVE
  Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.
• STATABLE
  That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• DEDUCTIVELY
  By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.
• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
  The state or quality of being apostolical.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• ESTATLICH; ESTATLY
  Stately; dignified. Chaucer.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• HEMASTATICS
  Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.