Thesaurus:anomaly
English
Noun
Sense: something that is strange or unusual
Synonyms
- aberrant
- abnormality [⇒ thesaurus]
- anomaly
- deviance
- deviant
- farlie (obsolete, British dialect)
- freak
- irregularity
- odd fish (idiomatic)
- oddity
- outlier
- peculiarity
- queerness
- rarity [⇒ thesaurus]
- rum (obsolete, slang)
- strange fish (idiomatic)
- strangeness [⇒ thesaurus]
- unusualness
- weirdness
Hyponyms
- People:
- foreigner [⇒ thesaurus]
- maverick [⇒ thesaurus]
- outcast [⇒ thesaurus]
- strange person [⇒ thesaurus]
- Objects:
Hypernyms
Holonyms
Various
Further reading
- “83. unconformity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “anomaly” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.