ANOMALOUS


Meaning of ANOMALOUS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

position

She became worried about the appearance of the place, about her cooking, and about her anomalous position in the household.

The result of this anomalous position has been that the majority of the disabled have had to suffer great financial hardship.

They were a decent lot and I was glad that they accepted me despite my anomalous position .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous .

Consequently what does not fit neatly into existing experience is anomalous and apt to seem mystically dangerous.

In fact, the anomalous status gave him greater leeway.

Let it be agreed that the doctrine is anomalous .

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.

This phenomenon may also explain some of our anomalous fossil distributions and extinctions.

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