supernormal
- adjective
- /ˌsuːpərˈnɔːrml/
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extranormal
- Interest on those loans gives the U.K. banks supernormal, special profits of about 21 billion a year—compared with their supernormal profits of 5 billion a year from cash machines, which were criticized in the Cruickshank report earlier this year.
- supernormal profits
Examples
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But first we remove the damaged portions of the brain... and permit the implanted tissues... which have been chemically revitalized... to produce brain protein... at an accelerated and supernormal rate.
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Total supernormal banking profits from this source in the U.S.A., the U.K., Eurozone countries, and Japan are about $140 billion a year.
Academic text (2001) -
Interest on those loans gives the U.K. banks supernormal, special profits of about 21 billion a year—compared with their supernormal profits of 5 billion a year from cash machines, which were criticized in the Cruickshank report earlier this year.
Academic text (2001) -
The argument is merely that at the margin (where supernormal profits and reputations for genius are being made) the observer's knowledge is not the same as the doer's; the critic is no improvement as an artist over the artist; the model of the future is no substitute for the entrepreneur's god-possessed hunch.
Academic text (1992) -
Her ability to learn languages quickly is supernormal, allowing her to speak five fluently.
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The athlete's supernormal endurance enabled her to complete the marathon in record time.
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The scientist reported supernormal growth rates in the plants due to the new fertilizer.
Synonyms
35
3.2
Better than most people or things of the same kind
12
3.4
Higher than the usual or expected level
1
4.8
Very high in level and common in technical fields
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9.2
Much more than what is usual or expected
1
4.9
Much higher than normal in amount or level
Something beyond normal experience that science cannot explain
Antonyms
How Unusual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Supernormal has two parts: the first part super-, meaning 'above', and normal, meaning 'usual'. Think of a superhero who is stronger than normal people, so supernormal can mean 'greater than the usual' or 'above average'.