anomalous

Word family

a·nom·a·lous /əˈnɒmələs $ əˈnɑː-/ adjectiveadj formal

UNUSUALdifferent from what you expected to find 异常的，反常的

a highly anomalous situation

极其反常的形势

anomalous results

异常的结果

—anomalously adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

anomalous• Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous.• Let it be agreed that the doctrine is anomalous.• Consequently what does not fit neatly into existing experience is anomalous and apt to seem mystically dangerous.• This phenomenon may also explain some of our anomalous fossil distributions and extinctions.• The coincidence of those anomalous ideas was bound to upset many previously held notions about art and photography.• This has the apparently anomalous result that both the policeman and the defendant are using force lawfully.• In fact, the anomalous status gave him greater leeway.

Origin anomalous