irregular
/ɪˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ/ adjective B1- Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
- Of a surface, rough.
- Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
- Of a polygon, not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
- Of a polyhedron, whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other).
- Of a word, not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language. · "Calves", "cacti", and "children" are irregular plurals.· "To buy" is an irregular English verb: its past simple and past participle tense is "bought".
- Having abnormal bowel movements at inconsistent intervals.
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“It has a very irregular look,” said the Colonel.
You may look upon me simply as an irregular pioneer, who goes in front of the regular forces of the country.
But it must be said that if he had seen it, he attached so little importance to this scrap of paper, and so much importance to his two hundred thousand francs, that he would not have opposed whatever the Englishman might do, however irregular it might be.
His grey clothes and jerky, zigzag, irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.
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