anomalous

Speech parts

1. anomalous - Adjective

2. anomalous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fey kinky different weird queer freak unique rare unusual isolated uncommon singular strange irregular extraordinary
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Antonyms

amen common natural average standard normal
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Related terms

anomaly anomal

Phrases with the word

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Examples

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach. Felix Frankfurter

There are circumstances under which the anomalous should be courted. Ignorance is one of them. Roger Zelazny

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities. Stephen Cambone

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life. Eric Clapton

To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. Jorge Luis Borges

Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance, and perhaps on occasions pay their court to each in turns, throwing out tails, as they do so, in all sorts of anomalous and contradictory directions. Agnes Mary Clerke

Close letter words and terms

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