Foundation level · Year 4 · free
normal
adjective · Say it: NOR-mul
What it means
Foundationusual, ordinary and what you would expect
It was a normal Monday morning, with Mum rushing to find my school shoes.
Similar and opposite words
Synonyms (similar meaning)
- ordinary
- regular
- typical
- usual
Antonyms (opposite meaning)
- abnormal
- strange
- unusual
More examples
- After the long summer holiday, things soon got back to normal at school.
Where the word comes from
From the Latin word 'normalis', meaning made according to a carpenter's square or rule.
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