Anomalous

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  • adjective. Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
  • adjective. Equivocal, as in classification or nature.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Deviating from the normal; aberrant or abnormal.
  • adjective. Of uncertain or unknown categorization.
  • adjective. Having anomalies.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. 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."
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