Anomalous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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) 2.0 [wn]:

  anomalous
       adj : 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 [moby-thes]:

  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