anomaly | Definition of anomaly

Synonyms and Antonyms of anomaly

1 something that is different from what is ordinary or expected

her C grade is an anomaly, as she's never made anything except A's and B's before

Synonyms of anomaly

aberration, abnormality, exception, oddity, oddment, rarity

Words Related to anomaly

curiosity, peculiarity, singularity

accident, bizarrerie, phenomenon, quirk, vagary

distortion, kink, mutation, variation

difference, disparity, inconsistence, inconsistency

contradiction, paradox

Near Antonyms of anomaly

norm, ordinary, usual

2 a person, thing, or event that is far from normal

snow in July is an anomaly in most of the northern hemisphere

Synonyms of anomaly

abnormality, freak, monster, monstrosity

Words Related to anomaly

abortion, malformation, miscreation, mutant, mutation

character, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, eccentric, kook, nut, oddball, screwball, weirdo

aberrant, deviant

individualist, maverick, nonconformist

curiosity, peculiarity, singularity

aberration, exception, irregularity, oddity, rarity

Near Antonyms of anomaly

sample, specimen

commonplace, usual

Antonyms of anomaly

average, norm, normal, par, standard