Irregular

//ɪˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə//

Synonyms for "irregular" (481 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (97)

abnormal asymmetrical guerrilla occasional unconventional uneven unorthodox unpredictable unsymmetrical aberrant actionable adrift affable afloat against the law aimless alternating amorphous anamorphous anarchic

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Adjective(8 words)

abnormal alien assorted barmy booky coarse constipated curious

Adjective(1 words)

atypical

Strong matches (144)

discontinued discontinuous discrete disjunct disjunctive disordered disorderly disparate dispersed disproportional disproportionate distorted divaricate divergent diversified diversiform dizzy dotty easy easygoing

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eccentric episodic erose erratic exceptional extraordinary familiar fast and loose felonious fey fickle fitful flaky flawed flickering flighty flitting fluctuating folksy formless fourth class fourth-class freakish freaky free and easy frivolous funny giddy gnominious gracious grainy granulated gratuitous guttering halting haphazard haymish herky-jerky heteroclite heteromorphic hit-or-miss homely homespun homey horripilant idiocratic idiosyncratic ill-matched ill-sorted illegal illegitimate illicit immethodical imperfect impermissible impetuous improper impulsive inadequate inchoate incoherent inconsistent inconstant indecisive indecorous indiscriminate inequal inferior infirm informal insufficient intermittent intermitting interrupted irresolute irresponsible jagged jerky jolty justiciable kinky kooky labyrinthine lawless linsey-woolsey loose lopsided low class low grade low test low-class low-grade low-quality low-test lumpy lurching maggoty maquis maquisard mazy mean meaningless mercurial mickey mouse mismatched misshapen moody motley mutable natural nonconforming nonconformist nonconstitutional noncontinuous nonlegal

Adjective(5 words)

eerie freak harsh heteroclite instable

Noun(3 words)

guerilla guerrilla insurgent

Adjective(1 words)

maverick

Related words (240)

nonlicit nonlinear nonsequential nonserial nonstandard nonsymmetric nonsymmetrical nonsystematic nonuniform nutty odd oddball off balance off-balance off-key offbeat offhand offhanded one sided one-sided

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orderless out of proportion outlaw outlawed overbalanced pale paltry parenthetic parenthetical partisan patchy patriot peculiar perverse pimply pitted plain planless pluralistic pocky poor potholed promiscuous punishable punk purposeless queer quirky ragged rambling random randomised rank reject relaxed resistance resistance fighter restless ripply rough rough-grained rough-hewn roughcast roughhewn roving ruffled rugged rutted rutty scatterbrained schlock schmatte scrappy screwball screwy second second best second class second rate second-best second-class seedy senseless shabby shagged shaggy shapeless shifting shifty shuffling simple singular skew skewed slapdash snatchy sociable spasmatic spasmic spasmodic spastic spineless sporadic spot spotty sprung staggering straggling straggly strange stray straying strong subnormal suspended systemless tacky temporary textured third third class third rate third-class third-rate tinny tortuous trapezoid triable twisted unaccountable unaffected unallowed unarranged unassuming unauthorized unbalanced unceremonious uncertain unclassified uncommon unconnected unconsidered unconstitutional unconstrained uncontrolled undependable under-the-counter under-the-table underground underground fighter undirected undisciplined unequable unequal unfixed ungraded unique unjoined unkempt unlawful unlevel unmethodical unmetrical unnatural unofficial unordered unorganized unpolished unrefined unregular unreliable unrestrained unrhythmical unsettled unsmooth unsorted unstable unstable as water unstaid unstatutory unsteadfast unsteady unstudied unsuccessive unsymmetric unsystematic ununiform unusual unwarrantable unwarranted unwonted vacillating vagrant vague variable variegated variform various varying vc veering vicissitudinary vicissitudinous vietcong volatile wacky wandering wanton warped wavering wavery wavy wayward weird whimsical wimpled wishy washy wishy-washy wobbling wobbly wrongful

Adjective(15 words)

outlandish prodigious remarkable rocky rough salebrous scabrous seld singular squirrelly strange sundry unstable unsteady wacko

Noun(1 words)

second

Adjective(3 words)

temporary unorthodox unpredictable

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

9 relation types

More general

4 entries

merchandise product ware warrior

Antonyms

2 entries

regular

Synonyms

5 entries

guerrilla temporary unorthodox unpredictable unsymmetrical

capable of

1 entries

mean not regular

derived

16 entries

Baker Street Irregular irregular galaxy irregular prime irregular prism irregular verb irregular warfare irregularist irregularity irregularization irregularize irregularly irregularness nonirregular on an irregular basis regioirregular stereoirregular

has context

1 entries

geometry

is a

1 entries

merchandise

related to

15 entries

asymmetrical force illegal military nonstandard partisan regular regularity rough soldier symmetry uniformity unrhythmical unsteady unsystematic

similar

35 entries

abnormal asymmetric asymmetrical casual crooked illegal imperfect improper occasional part time part-time partisan

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Translations

118 translations across 42 languages.

Ancient Greek

3 entries

ἀνώμαλος adj (non-standard)
ἀνώμαλος adj (in grammar, applied to words)
ἀσύντακτος noun (soldier)

Arabic

2 entries

شَاذّ adj (in grammar, applied to words)
غَيْر مُنْتَظِم adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Armenian

3 entries

անկանոն adj (non-standard)
անկանոն adj (in grammar, applied to words)
անկանոն adj (lacking uniformity)

Belarusian

3 entries

нестанда́ртны adj (non-standard)
няпра́вільны adj (non-standard)
няпра́вільны adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Bulgarian

4 entries

непра́вилен adj (non-standard)
непра́вилен adj (in grammar, applied to words)
неравноме́рен adj (lacking uniformity)
нередо́вен adj (non-standard)

Catalan

2 entries

irregular adj (non-standard)
irregular adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

不規則 /不规则 adj (in grammar, applied to words)
無常 /无常 adj (non-standard)

Czech

1 entries

nepravidelný adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Danish

1 entries

uregelmæssig adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Dutch

2 entries

onregelmatig adj (non-standard)
onregelmatig adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Esperanto

1 entries

neregulara adj (non-standard)

Finnish

4 entries

epäsäännöllinen adj (non-standard)
epäsäännöllinen adj (in grammar, applied to words)
säännötön adj (non-standard)
säännötön adj (in grammar, applied to words)

French

4 entries

irrégulier adj (non-standard)
irrégulier adj (in grammar, applied to words)
irrégulier adj (lacking uniformity)
irrégulier noun (soldier)

German

3 entries

irregulär adj (non-standard)
unregelmäßig adj (non-standard)
unregelmäßig adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Greek

4 entries

ακανόνιστος adj (non-standard)
ανώμαλος adj (in grammar, applied to words)
ασύμμετρος adj (lacking uniformity)
άτακτος noun (soldier)

Hindi

3 entries

अनियमित adj (non-standard)
अनियमित adj (lacking uniformity)
अमानक adj (non-standard)

Hungarian

2 entries

rendhagyó adj (in grammar, applied to words)
rendszertelen adj (lacking uniformity)

Icelandic

1 entries

óreglulegur adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Ido

1 entries

neregulala adj (non-standard)

Irish

3 entries

mírialta adj (in grammar, applied to words)
neamhrialta adj (non-standard)
neamhrialta adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Italian

2 entries

irregolare adj (non-standard)
irregolare adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Japanese

4 entries

不同の adj (lacking uniformity)
不揃いの adj (lacking uniformity)
不規則な adj (non-standard)
不規則な adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Korean

1 entries

불규칙하다 adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Latin

4 entries

anomalus adj (in grammar, applied to words)
inconditus adj (non-standard)
irrēgulāris adj (non-standard)
ēnormis adj (non-standard)

Macedonian

1 entries

неправилен adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Māori

4 entries

hikuwaru adj (non-standard)
hikuwaru adj (lacking uniformity)
karawhiti adj (lacking uniformity)
karawhiti adj (lacking uniformity)

Norman

2 entries

irrédgulyi adj (non-standard)
irrédgulyi adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

irregulær adj (non-standard)
uregelmessig adj (in grammar, applied to words)
uregelmessig adj (lacking uniformity)
uregelrett adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries

irregulær adj (non-standard)
uregelmessig adj (lacking uniformity)
uregelrett adj (in grammar, applied to words)
uregelrett adj (lacking uniformity)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

قاعدهسز adj (non-standard)
لوند noun (soldier)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

onbestendich adj (non-standard)

Polish

2 entries

nieregularny adj (non-standard)
nieregularny adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Portuguese

4 entries

assimétrico adj (lacking uniformity)
desigual adj (lacking uniformity)
irregular adj (non-standard)
irregular adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Romanian

4 entries

iregular adj (non-standard)
nereglementar adj (non-standard)
neregulat adj (non-standard)
neregulat adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Russian

4 entries

непра́вильный adj (non-standard)
непра́вильный adj (in grammar, applied to words)
неравноме́рный adj (lacking uniformity)
нестанда́ртный adj (non-standard)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

nȅpravīlan adj (in grammar, applied to words)
не̏правӣлан adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Slovak

1 entries

nepravidelný adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Slovene

1 entries

nepravilen adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Spanish

4 entries

arrítmico adj (lacking uniformity)
irregular adj (non-standard)
irregular adj (in grammar, applied to words)
irregular adj (lacking uniformity)

Swedish

2 entries

oregelbunden adj (non-standard)
oregelbunden adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Turkish

1 entries

düzensiz adj (in grammar, applied to words)

Ukrainian

3 entries

непра́вильний adj (non-standard)
непра́вильний adj (in grammar, applied to words)
нестанда́ртний adj (non-standard)

Sample sentences

20 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I don't like learning irregular verbs.

Source: tatoeba (1802)

Your attendance at classes was irregular.

Source: tatoeba (17070)

When dreams begin, breathing becomes irregular and less deep.

Source: tatoeba (139685)

The surface of the moon is irregular.

Source: tatoeba (238817)

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