Meaning of ANOMALOUS
| Pronunciation: | | u'nâmulus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe" |
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| | Synonyms: | | abnormal |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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