Crossword clues for irregular
irregular
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irregular \Ir*reg"u*lar\, n. One who is not regular; especially, a soldier not in regular service.
Irregular \Ir*reg"u*lar\, a. [Pref. ir- not + regular: cf. F. irr['e]gulier.] 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.
Mazes intricate,
Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular
Then most when most irregular they seem.
--Milton.
Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
Against the irregular and wild Glendower.
--Shak.
A flowery meadow through which a clear stream murmured
in many irregular meanders.
--Jones.
Syn: Immethodical; unsystematic; abnormal; unnatural; anomalous; erratic; devious; crooked; eccentric; unsettled; uneven; variable; changeable; mutable; desultory; disorderly; wild; immoderate; intemperate; inordinate; vicious.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a soldier not of the regular army," 1747, from irregular (adj.).
Wiktionary
a. nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations. n. A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and, often, does not follow regular army tactics.
WordNet
adj. contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice; "irregular hiring practices" [ant: regular]
(of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement [ant: regular]
not occurring at expected times [syn: unpredictable]
used of the military; not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces; "irregular troops"; "irregular warfare" [ant: regular]
deviating from what is usual or common or to be expected; often somewhat odd or strange; "these days large families are atypical"; "highly irregular behavior" [syn: atypical]
lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular worker"; "employed on a temporary basis" [syn: temporary]
of a surface; not level or flat; "walking was difficult on the irregular cobblestoned surface"
used of independent armed resistance forces; "guerrilla warfare"; "partisan forces" [syn: guerrilla(a), guerilla(a), underground]
independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat irregular private life"; "maverick politicians" [syn: maverick, unorthodox]
Wikipedia
Something that is irregular does not follow the expected pattern. The term is used in many different fields, with various meanings.
Usage examples of "irregular".
In a glass cabinet nearby was an odd black stone, of irregular outline, small enough to lift, but large enough to brain an afrit nicely.
The little masses of aggregated matter are of the most diversified shapes, often spherical or oval, sometimes much elongated, or quite irregular with thread or necklacelike or clubformed projections.
Such an irregular circumstance must, alas, awaken the liveliest speculations among those who move in the world.
The undefeated hosts of Tlapallan, the terrible disciplined array that conquered the irregular scattered tribes of Alata and stole the best lands in a continent!
Clipper One arrived back over the target the first irregular line of amphibious tanks, also called amtracs or LVTs or alligators, were churning and bucking the sea only a mile offshore.
This is a thirteenth-century addition to the church, and is of irregular shape, as it is wedged in, as it were, between the apsidal chapel on the east side of the transept and the south wall of the choir aisle.
Chapter Eight The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.
He watched the EKG, hoping that the atropine might have a positive effect on the irregular heartbeats.
She wore it around her neck, a smooth and somehow oily-looking irregular blue-green disk, bezel set and hung upon a twenty-four-carat gold chain.
We followed the other buses over a bridge and into a bleaker landscape, dryer, stonier, with less vegetation, just scattered thorn-bushes for the most part, dotted across low but steep and irregular hills.
Unlike Innail and Norloch, the only Schools Maerad knew, Busk was not planned in concentric circlesthe geography of the island, steep and irregular, made this impossible.
Maxian centered himself and extended his sight, seeking the source of the unfelt wind that now accelerated the rings of the plate into an irregular sphere.
The harsh, angular contours of the metal had been visually softened by irregular areas of paint and the attachment of artificial foliage, Cha Thrat saw as she swam around it, no doubt to make it resemble the vegetation of the home world.
The cheaply painted plaster was cracked along the walls and small blotches had fallen out of the ceiling, leaving irregular shaped holes that showed through to the lathe work beneath.
The front wall was extended beyond this and brought in again to the cliff on a curve, forming another small cist of irregular shape.