anomalist

1. 1.

   someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases

   Broaderintellectual

Other forms of anomalist

plural

anomalists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anomalist

What does anomalist mean?

anomalist means "someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases".

How many syllables are in anomalist?

anomalist has 4 syllables and divides as a-no-ma-list under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.