anomalous
pronunciation
How to pronounce anomalous in British English:
UK [əˈnɒmələs]
How to pronounce anomalous in American English:
US [əˈnɑmələs]
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- Adjective:
- deviating from the general or common order or type
Word Origin
- anomalous (adj.)
- 1640s, from Late Latin anomalus, from Greek anomalos "uneven, irregular" (see anomaly). Related: Anomalously; anomalousness.
Example
- 1. This raid was an anomalous moment in obama 's foreign policy .
- 2. Futures brokers said they observed anomalous price action , however .
- 3. We measured anomalous activity in martian soil experiments aboard the nasa viking landers 35 years ago .
- 4. Mises summed up the reasons for this anomalous bent toward scholarly self-abnegation on the part of menger and b hm-bawerk .
- 5. I wish I could say that this is a single , anomalous group of students , but the trend is unmistakable .