Irregular
[ɪ'regjʊlə] or [ɪ'rɛɡjəlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name.
(adj.) not occurring at expected times .
(adj.) independent in behavior or thought; 'she led a somewhat irregular private life'; 'maverick politicians' .
(adj.) (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical; 'walking was difficult on the irregular cobblestoned surface' .
(adj.) lacking continuity or regularity; 'an irregular worker'; 'employed on a temporary basis' .
(adj.) falling below the manufacturer's standard; 'irregular jeans' .
(adj.) contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice; 'irregular hiring practices' .
(adj.) (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement .
(adj.) (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces; 'irregular troops'; 'irregular warfare' .
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Definition
(a.) Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular.
(n.) One who is not regular; especially, a soldier not in regular service.
Checker: Phyllis
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Anomalous, abnormal, anomalistic, unusual, unconformable, aberrant, exceptional, eccentric, erratic, devious.[2]. Uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, variable, changeable, not uniform.[3]. Immethodical, out of order, unsymmetrical.[4]. Disorderly, inordinate, immoral, wild.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See REGULAR]
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Definition
adj. not according to rule: unnatural: unsystematic: vicious: (gram.) departing from the ordinary rules in its inflection: variable: not symmetrical without regular form—(Shak.) Irreg′ulous.—n. a soldier not in regular service.—n. Irregular′ity state of being irregular: deviation from a straight line or from rule: departure from method or order: vice.—adv. Irreg′ularly.
Typist: Wesley
Examples
- I am in deadly peril always, for these spasms are sudden and irregular, and of course I cannot tell when to be getting out of the way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These are of irregular cylindrical form, depending on the form of the tusk’s circumference. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The giant rolls consist of a pair of iron cylinders of massive size and weight, with removable wearing plates having irregular surfaces formed by projecting knobs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Accordingly, the men who were wanted were sought out and found; which was in itself a most uncivilised and irregular way of proceeding. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A few efforts at irregular turning had been made before, but in the arts generally only circular forms had been turned. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There was a broad, irregular smudge covering some yards of the track. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Those deep gray eyes rather near together--and the delicate irregular nose with a sort of ripple in it--and all the powdered curls hanging backward. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Thus we may establish it as a certain maxim, that we can never, by any principle, but by an irregular kind [Such as that of Sect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- You have very irregular service. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The points were iron, and we found the sparks were very irregular. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Human conduct is irregular and uncertain. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The public taxes, to which they were subject, were as irregular and oppressive as the services. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Beyond the irregular carpet of grass was a row of white palings, which marked the verge of the heath in this latitude. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He passed but one building here, and that seemed large and hall-like, though irregular. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is a grand, irregular plateau, and looks as if it might have been created for a battle-field. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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