Tra từ normal - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

nor·mal AW [normal normals] adjective, noun BrE [ˈnɔːml] NAmE [ˈnɔːrml]
adjective
1. typical, usual or ordinary; what you would expect
•quite/perfectly (= completely) normal
• Her temperature is normal.
•It's normal to feel tired after such a long trip.
•Divorce is complicated enough in normal circumstances, but this situation is even worse.
•Under normal circumstances, I would say ‘yes’.
•He should be able to lead a perfectly normal life.
•In the normal course of events I wouldn't go to that part of town.
•We are open during normal office hours.
•It is normal practice to inform somebody if you want to leave early.
•My day began in the normal way, and then I received a very strange phone call.
2. not suffering from any mental ↑disorder
• People who commit such crimes aren't normal.
Opp: ↑abnormal, see as per normal/usual at ↑per

Word Origin:
mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘right-angled’): from Latin normalis, from norma ‘carpenter's square’. Current senses date from the early 19th cent.

Thesaurus:
normal adj.
1.
•The help desk is available during normal office hours.
ordinary • • average • • typical • • common •
Opp: abnormal, Opp: exceptional, Opp: strange, Opp: odd, Opp: weird
normal/common for sb to do sth/for sth to happen
the normal/ordinary/average/common man
a/an normal/ordinary/average/typical working day
in the normal/ordinary course of events/business/things
Normal or ordinary? Sth that is normal is as it should be or as you would expect; the word ordinary makes no comment about how things should be, only about how things are, whether this is good or bad:
•Her temperature was normal.
✗ Her temperature was ordinary.:
•It's normal to feel tired after such a long journey.
✗ It's ordinary to feel tired after such a long journey.
2.
•No normal person would do a thing like that.
sane • • rational • • in your right mind •
Opp: abnormal
a normal/sane/rational person
perfectly/quite/completely/otherwise normal/sane/rational
Normal or sane? Sane can be used to talk about yourself in a rather humorous way; normal is always used about other people:
•Having a laugh helps me to stay sane.
✗ Having a laugh helps me to stay normal.

Example Bank:
•Go for your check-ups in the normal way until you are six months pregnant.
•I'd say it was pretty normal to be upset if your house burned down.
•It is now regarded as normal for women to work outside the home.
•It started out as a perfectly normal day.
•Mandy doesn't seem her normal self today.
•The temperature is near normal for spring.
•Under normal circumstances Martin would probably have gone to college.
•He had been a completely normal, healthy little boy.
•He should be able to lead a perfectly normal life.
•Her temperature was normal.
•I don't see how otherwise normal, sane people can agree with such a policy.
•In normal circumstances she would have tested the machine first.
•In the normal course of events these things take months.
•It's normal to feel tired after such a long journey.
•Life continued as normal.
•No sane/normal person would do a thing like that.
•People who commit these crimes can't be normal, can they?
•She seemed perfectly normal to me.
•Slavery was once seen as normal and natural.
•The help desk is available during normal office hours.
•The skin surface is resistant to infection under normal circumstances.

noun uncountable
the usual or average state, level or standard
•above/below normal
• Things soon returned to normal.

Word Origin:
mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘right-angled’): from Latin normalis, from norma ‘carpenter's square’. Current senses date from the early 19th cent.

Example Bank:
•After a week of festivities, life returned to normal.
•His pulse rate had slowed to somewhere near normal.
•Sales to December are well below normal.
•The rainfall has been above normal for the time of year.