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Definition: Irregularity |
IrregularityNoun1. Behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality. 2. Not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals. 3. An irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern. 4. Irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "irregularity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: IrregularitySynonyms: abnormality (n), constipation (n), geometrical irregularity (n), unregularity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: regularity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disorder | Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles. |
Distortion | Asymmetry; irregularity. |
Irregularity of recurrence | Noun: irregularity, uncertainty, unpunctuality; fitfulness; Adjective: capriciousness, ecrhythmus. |
Nonuniformity | Noun: diversity, irregularity, unevenness; multiformity; unconformity; roughness; dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divarication, divergence. |
Unconformity | Aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo; (qualification). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Irregularity |
| English words defined with "irregularity": Abnormity, Anomalistically ♦ continuous ♦ Difformity ♦ Hag's tooth ♦ Inordination, Irregularities ♦ Misorder ♦ Old Style, old style font ♦ Peloria, premature ventricular contraction, PVC ♦ To be off the hinges. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "irregularity": Arrhythmia, Sinus ♦ Broken Stowage ♦ chimneying ♦ lype ♦ MAD bird, magnetic anomaly detector bird, mosaic structure ♦ National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory ♦ OBSERVER, SEISMIC PROSPECTING, open defect ♦ Queen Anne's Style ♦ snow wreaths ♦ tachyarrhythmia ♦ unequal draft, unequal draught, unequal pressure, United States Mail Box. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | There is marked irregularity in the provisional zone of ossification producing a "saw-toothed" appearance. Note small islands of cartilage remaining in the ossified bone; H&E stain; magnification 100X. Credit: CDC. |
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| "Building - downtown Tampa" by raznov Commentary: "Just a neat contrast between the angular lines of the building and the irregularity of the palm tree in the left foreground." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Fertility may be reduced in women due to abnormal cervical mucus or to menstrual irregularity. (references) | |
An asymmetric lesion is one that is not regularly round or oval. Border irregularity refers to notching, scalloping, or poorly defined lesion margins. (references) | ||
Clinical features of de novo pigmented lesions suggestive of melanoma include Asymmetry, Border irregularity, Color variegation, and Diameter greater than 6 millimeters (the ABCD's of melanoma). (references) | ||
Worker Rights | Italy | Labor Ministry inspections in 2000 of 1,776 firms revealed that the employment of approximately one out of three minors entailed some irregularity of age, occupation, prescribed medical evaluation, or required rest or vacation period. (references) |
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| "Irregularity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Irregularity" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 115 | 30,138 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "irregularity": geometrical irregularity ♦ irregularity of form ♦ suspicion of irregularity. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
menstrual irregularity | 22 |
irregularity | 16 |
heart irregularity | 5 |
accounting irregularity | 5 |
menstruation irregularity | 4 |
menstral irregularity | 3 |
cycle irregularity menstrual | 3 |
bowel irregularity | 3 |
heartbeat irregularity | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "irregularity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | veprim i parregullt, shkelje (breaking, crushing, delinquency, encroachment, impingement, infraction, infringement, invasion, lap, obtrusion, offence, outrage, overlap, perambulation, squelcher, stamping, transgression, trespass, violation), parregullsi (disorder, foul, inequality), çrregullësi (cobwebs). (various references) | |
Arabic | اللاقياسية, الشذوذية, شىء شاذ (anomaly, monstrosity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разюзданост (lawlessness), грапавост (roughness), несиметричност (asymmetry, dissymmetry), нередност (disturbance, nuisance), неравност (accident, asperity, bump, inequality, rough, roughness, unevenness), неправилност (abnormity, anomaly, viciousness), непорядъчност, порочност (depravity, viciousness, wickedness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不规则性 (Irregularities). (various references) | |
Czech | odchylka (aberration, deflection, deviance, deviation, divergence, divergency, variance), neregulárnost, nepravidelnost (unevenness). (various references) | |
Danish | uregelmæssighed til skade af Fællesskabets budget (irregularity adversely affecting the Community budget), umiddelbart tegn på fejl (prima facie evidence of an irregularity), traadfortykkelse (slub, thread irregularity), anmeldt uregelmaessighed (notified irregularity). (various references) | |
Dutch | onregelmatigheid ten nadele van de Gemeenschapsbegroting (irregularity adversely affecting the Community budget), gedeclareerde onregelmatigheid (notified irregularity), draadverdikking (slub, thread irregularity), aanwijzing voor een onregelmatigheid (prima facie evidence of an irregularity). (various references) | |
Farsi | یبوست , نامنظمی , بی نظمی (Anarchy, Disarray, Disorder), بی قاعدگی , بی ترتیبی (Disorder, Solecism). (various references) | |
Finnish | säännöttömyys (abnormity, anomaly), epäsäännöllisyys. (various references) | |
French | irrégularité (irregular occurence). (various references) | |
German | unregelmäßigkeit (abnormity, anomaly, unevenness, unsteadiness), regelwidrigkeit (abnormality). (various references) | |
Greek | παρατυπία (breach of formality, informality), ανωμαλία (abnormality, abnormity, anomaly, scragginess, unevenness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חריגות (abnormality, exception), חריגה (anomaly, deviation, exception). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rendellenesség (abnormality, anomaly, disease, disorder), szabálytalanság (abuse, anomaly, foul, infringement, malpractice). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyelewengan (aberration, corruption). (various references) | |
Italian | irregolarità (accident, anomaly, inequality, informality). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 斑 (erraticness, inconsistancy, mottles, speckles, spots, unevenness), 反則 (balk, default, foul play, transgression), 変調 (abnormality, anomaly, change of tone, modulation, variation), 変格 (irregular conjugation), 変則 , 不規則 (disorderly, unsteadiness), 不順 (unseasonableness), 不純 (adulteration, dishonesty, impurity), 不同 (difference, disorder, diversity), 不揃い (lack of uniformity, unevenness), 不斉 (asymmetry, lack of uniformity, unevenness), 不次 , 不正規 , 不正 (dishonesty, illegality, impropriety, iniquity, injustice, unfairness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふぞろい (lack of uniformity, unevenness), ふきそく (disorderly, unsteadiness), ふそろい (lack of uniformity, unevenness), ふどう (difference, disorder, diversity, firmness, fixed, floating, idle, immobility, motionless, steadfastness, woman's duties), ふせいき, ふせい (asymmetry, correction, dishonesty, illegality, impropriety, iniquity, injustice, irregular, lack of uniformity, nature, negative properties, paternity, revision, transient life, unevenness, unfairness), ふじゅん (adulteration, dishonesty, impurity, unseasonableness), ふじ (emergency, incurability, peerless, unexpectedness, unparalleled, wisteria), むら (erraticness, inconsistancy, unevenness, village), へんそく (shifting gears), へんかく (change, irregular conjugation, reform, Reformation, revolution, upheaval), へんちょう (abnormality, anomaly, change of tone, making too much of, modulation, overestimation, preponderance, variation), はんそく (balk, default, foul play, sales promotion, transgression, turning over in bed). (various references) | |
Korean | 불규칙성 (Irregularities). (various references) | |
Manx | sprangaght (asymmetry, legginess, non-uniformity), neureaid (unevenness, unevenness of land), neuchinjaght, meereiltys (anarchy, disloyalty, disorder, lawlessness, misrule, turbulence). (various references) | |
Norwegian | uregelmessighet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irregularityay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | irregularidade (acerbity, anomaly, inequality, perturbation, roughness). (various references) | |
Romanian | neregularitate. (various references) | |
Russian | неровность (abruptness, inequality, jaggy, jog, raggedness, rough, roughness), нерегулярность, неравномерность (unevenness), беспорядочность (promiscuity), перебой (interruption, stoppage). (various references) | |
Scottish | mi-riaghailt (disorder, turbulence), anagna. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neregularnost, nepravilnost (inaccuracy). (various references) | |
Spanish | irregularidad (aberration). (various references) | |
Swedish | oriktighet (falsity, impropriety, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness), oregelbundenhet (anomaly), ojämnhet (roughness, unevenness), oegentlighet (impropriety), avvikelse (aberrancy, absconding, anomaly, declension, deflection, deflexion, departure, deviation, digress, digression, discrepancy, disorder, divergence, divergency, error, swerve). (various references) | |
Thai | ความไม่เรียบ, ความผิดปกติ (anomaly). (various references) | |
Turkish | suç (blame, caper, crime, criminality, culpability, delict, delinquency, error, fault, felony, guilt, job, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, rap, sin, transgression, wrong), kuralsızlık (anomaly), kuraldışılık (anomaly, exception, solecism), düzgün olmama, düzensizlik (disarrangement, disarray, disharmony, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, hugger mugger, huggermugger, inequality, looseness, muss, untidiness, waywardness), bozukluk (being broken down, chicken feed, coin, decomposition, defect, deformity, distortion, disturbance, failure, faultiness, foulness, hilliness, putrescence, rupture, small chance, taint, unsoundness, upset), aykırılık (anomaly, contradiction, contradistinction, contrariety, cross-purposes, discrepancy, incongruity, inconsistency, repugnance, solecism), çarpıklık (cast, crookedness, distortion, obliqueness, perversion, skew, tortuosity, warp, wryness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | несиметричність, нерівномірність, нерегулярність (inconstancy), неправильність (abnormality, anomaly, impropriety, wrong). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính không đều, cái không đều tính không theo quy luật, điều trái quy luật, điều không chính quy. (various references) | |
Welsh | afreoleidd-dra (anomaly). (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Irregularity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irreg'larity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "irregularity" (pronounced ire'gyule"rutē) |
| 11 | -r e' g y u l e" r u t ē | regularity. |
| 8 | -y u l e" r u t ē | popularity, unpopularity. |
| 7 | -u l e" r u t ē | hilarity, insularity, similarity. |
| 6 | -l e" r u t ē | clarity, polarity. |
| 5 | -e" r u t ē | austerity, charity, dexterity, disparity, familiarity, parity, peculiarity, posterity, prosperity, rarity, severity, sincerity, solidarity, temerity, unfamiliarity, Verity, vulgarity. |
| 4 | -r u t ē | alacrity, authority, barbarity, celebrity, dissimilarity, immaturity, impurity, inferiority, insecurity, integrity, majority, maturity, mediocrity, minority, obscurity, particularity, priority, purity, security, seniority, sorority, superiority, supermajority, surety. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, availability, banality, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, centrality, chastity, civility, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, mendacity, mentality, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, partiality, passivity, paternity, paucity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polity, pomposity, portability, possibility, practicality, predictability, principality, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, proximity, publicity, punctuality, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, selectivity, senility, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, sexuality, simplicity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidity, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulnerability. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-l-r-r-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: regularity. | |
-3 letters: garrulity, irreality, irregular. | |
-4 letters: glairier, guiltier, irrigate, ligature, literary, regality, ruralite, rurality. | |
-5 letters: agility, glarier, greatly, irately, liturgy, reality, regular, retiary, retrial, tarrier, tearily, tegular, trailer, uralite. | |
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