Word Meanings - ANOMALOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANOMALOUS)

• Eccentric
• Peculiar
• singular
• idiosyncratic
• flighty
• aberrant
• anomalous
• wayward
• strange
• irregular
• abnormal
• odd
• whimsical
• erratic

Related words: (words related to ANOMALOUS)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• ECCENTRICITY
  The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis. (more info) 1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• ECCENTRICALLY
  In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• ANOMALOUSLY
  In an anomalous manner.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• ECCENTRICAL
  See ECCENTRIC
• ABNORMAL
  Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• FLIGHTY
  1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• IDIOSYNCRATIC; IDIOSYNCRATICAL
  Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's peculiar and individual character.
• ERRATIC
  1. Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore. 2. Deviating from a wise of the common
• WAYWARD
  Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. My wife is in a wayward mood. Shak. Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. Fairfax. Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought Keble. -- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n.
• SINGULARITY
  1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of
• STRANGENESS
  The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
• WHIMSICALITY
  The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
• ABERRANT
  Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin. (more info) 1. Wandering; straying
• WHIMSICALNESS
  The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• AWAYWARD
  Turned away; away. Chaucer.
• ECCENTRIC
  Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine. 4. Not coincident as to motive or end. His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master. Bacon. 5. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice,
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.