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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ANOM'ALOUS, a. Irregular; deviating from a general rule, method or analogy; applied, in grammar, to words which deviate from the common rules of inflection; and in astronomy, to the seemingly irregular motions of the planets; but applied also generally to whatever is irregular; as, an anomalous character; anomalous pronunciation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Late Latin anomalus, from Greek an?malos, literally, uneven, from a- + homalos even, from homos same — more at same Date: 1655 1. inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected ; irregular, unusual 2. a. of uncertain nature or classification b. marked by incongruity or contradiction ; paradoxical Synonyms: see irregular • anomalously adverb • anomalousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. having an irregular or deviant feature; abnormal. Derivatives: anomalously adv. anomalousness n. Etymology: LL anomalus f. Gk anomalos (as AN-(1), homalos even)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is anomalous is different from what is usual or expected. (FORMAL) For years this anomalous behaviour has baffled scientists... = unusual ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Irregular, abnormal, anomalistic, unconformable, preternatural, unnatural, unusual, singular, peculiar, exceptional, aberrant, eccentric, erratic, monstrous, out of the way.

Moby Thesaurus

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