From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Anomalous \A*nom"a*lous\, adjective [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
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 [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
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