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Anomalous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule.

adj. Equivocal, as in classification or nature.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Deviating from the normal; aberrant or abnormal.

adj. Of uncertain or unknown categorization.

adj. Having anomalies.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; irregular; abnormal: as, an anomalous character; an anomalous pronunciation.

Synonyms Unusual, singular, peculiar, odd, exceptional, unaccountable. See irregular.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. deviating from the general or common order or type

Word Usage

"There's also the more self-conscious and deliberate indecision where the anomalous is explicable as an artifice of the nomology of narrative itself, a product of those "laws of reality" that cover the use of extended metaphor in fiction."

Equivalent

unnatural abnormal

Cross Reference

anomalous chords

Form

anomalously

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

abnormal irregular

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

contradictory abnormal exceptional bizarre unsatisfactory