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anomalous

3 definitions found for anomalous

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :


  Anomalous \A*nom"a*lous\, a. [L. anomalus, Gr. ? uneven,
     irregular; 'an priv. + ? even, ? same. See Same, and cf.
     Abnormal.]
     Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal;
     irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :


  anomalous
      adj 1: deviating from the general or common order or type;
             "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :


  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "anomalous":
     aberrant, abnormal, absurd, amorphous, anomalistic, atypical,
     crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, deviant, deviative, different,
     disproportionate, divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic,
     exceptional, fey, flaky, foreign, formless, freakish, funny,
     heteroclite, heteromorphic, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, incoherent,
     incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, incongruous,
     inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, irreconcilable, irregular,
     kinky, kooky, maggoty, monstrous, nutty, odd, oddball, off-key,
     out of proportion, oxymoronic, paradoxical, peculiar,
     preternatural, prodigious, queer, quirky, screwball, screwy,
     self-contradictory, shapeless, singular, strange, stray, straying,
     subnormal, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, unregular,
     unrepresentative, untypical, wacky, wandering, whimsical