Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: irregularity
IPA transcription: [,ɪɹ,ɛɡjəl'ɛɹəti]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: abnormality, irregularity
    Meaning: behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
  • Synonyms: irregularity, unregularity
    Meaning: not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals
  • Synonyms: irregularity, geometrical_irregularity
    Meaning: an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern
Usage examples
  • But this mutability and irregularity of his conduct made them hate him still more.
  • Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, a sturdy, thick-set man with a wrinkled face, was annoyed about something, some sudden irregularity.
  • I want you to sew my lovely poppies over the collar and facings of the jacket, just spacing them a little and making a dainty irregularity.
  • "Tough work" as his first speech had been, he would have started up to make another if he had not known the extreme irregularity of such a course.
  • Who has not been struck by the strange irregularity that in a disease which generally sets in as an epidemic, different remedies are often indicated by different groups of symptoms?
  • There are some causes, which are entirely uniform and constant in producing a particular effect; and no instance has ever yet been found of any failure or irregularity in their operation.
  • Individual preferences are still expressed, however, in irregularity of employment. In the South some manufacturers have found that on an average the negroes will work in a factory not more than five or six hours a day, working ten hours for four days and lying off two days a week.