Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: irregular
IPA transcription: [,ɪɹ'ɛɡjəlɚ]
Pronunciations of irregular
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: irregular
    Meaning: contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice; "irregular hiring practices"
  • Synonyms: irregular, unpredictable
    Meaning: not occurring at expected times
Usage examples
  • Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence.
  • It was quite an ocean, with the irregular shores of earth, but desert and frightfully wild in appearance.
  • He had become so much used to such sounds that he would have slept on had not the crashes been so irregular.
  • My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear, and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me:
  • Or it is the heart, which hastens or slackens its beats, or makes them irregular, or enfeebles, or augments them.
  • Had you taken her face and measured it by certain rules, you would have found that her mouth was too large and her nose irregular.
  • The turmoil changed in character, irregular crevassed surface giving way to huge chasms, closely packed and most difficult to cross.
  • It bore witness to the nocturnal habits of a man who had long lived a life of irregular impulses to activity and dislocated hours and habits.
  • The room inside was something out of a madman's funhouse. It was higher than it was wide, irregular in shape, and more like a hallway than a room.
  • As she passed me, her horse made, in his impetuosity, an irregular movement, just while, coming once more upon open ground, she was again putting him to his speed.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Kiviuq (moon), License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording John Y. Brown (politician, born 1835), License CC BY-SA 4.0