anomalous

First recorded in 1640–50; from Medieval Latin, Late Latin anōmalus, or directly from Greek anṓmalos “irregular,” equivalent to an- “not, lacking”an-¹ + homalós “even,” with ō by analogy with other Greek privatives (cf. anopheles); see an-¹, homo-, -ous

OTHER WORDS FROM anomalous

a·nom·a·lous·ly, adverba·nom·a·lous·ness, noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH anomalous

anomalous , anonymous, euonymus, unanimous

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How to use anomalous in a sentence

By the sweat of their brow — Science News, January 23, 1971Polywater, or anomalous water, has provoked a continuing controversy among chemists.
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Well, a lot of it has to do with how GDP is calculated and an anomalously high reading in the third quarter.
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But the fact anomalously incensed him as a slight to the girl, who might have been still more sacrificed by Jeff's constancy.
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If he did not have a common soul in him, he had a subtle something that somehow anomalously did its duty.
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In it a convoluted structure replaced and rendered intelligible the anomalously rifted mass seen by Bond in 1847.
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British Dictionary definitions for anomalous

anomalous

/ (əˈnɒmələs) /

adjective

deviating from the normal or usual order, type, etc; irregular, abnormal, or incongruous

Derived forms of anomalous

anomalously, adverbanomalousness, noun

Word Origin for anomalous

C17: from Late Latin anōmalus, from Greek anōmalos uneven, inconsistent, from an- + homalos even, from homos one and the same

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