Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
deviating from the general or common order or type;
- Example: "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
anomalous
adj 1: deviating from the general or common order or type;
"advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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