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单词 irregularity
释义

irregularity

/ɪˌrɛɡjʊˈlarɪti /
noun (plural irregularities) [mass noun]
1The state or quality of being irregular: there is evidence that fraud and irregularity continue on a large scale the irregularity of his breathing...
  • Many projects have been listed and caught out, but they have not been involved in any irregularity or fraud.
  • He pressed his body up against hers in a more intimate manner and she heard his every breathing irregularity.
  • A council statement added: ‘One concerns a petty cash irregularity and the other concerns the use of council funds.’

Synonyms

asymmetry, lack of symmetry, non-uniformity, unevenness, crookedness, lopsidedness, contortion, deformity, jaggedness, raggedness, cragginess, indentation
roughness, bumpiness, unevenness, coarseness;
lumpiness, knobbliness
rare knobbiness
inconsistency, unsteadiness, unevenness, fitfulness, patchiness, haphazardness, inconstancy, instability, variability, changeableness, fluctuation, unpunctuality, unpredictability, unreliability, volatility, fickleness, caprice;
casualness, desultoriness
technical aperiodicity
rare erraticism, intermittence, intermittency
abnormality, unusualness, uncommonness, strangeness, waywardness, oddness, unexpectedness, singularity, atypicality, anomaly, anomalousness, deviation, divergence, aberrancy, aberration, freakishness, peculiarity, curiousness, eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, quirkiness, unorthodoxy
1.1 [count noun] (usually irregularities) A thing that is irregular in form or nature: irregularities of the heartbeat financial irregularities...
  • He declined to go into detail about the nature of the irregularities or to name companies allegedly involved.
  • He denies all charges except those of financial irregularities.
  • Barnes said directors began noticing financial irregularities in September.

Synonyms

bump, lump, bulge, hump, knob, knot, projection, prominence, eminence, ridge, protuberance, kink;
hole, hollow, pit, crater, depression, dip, indentation, trough, dent, dint;
gap, space, break, crack, chink, fissure, cranny
informal sticky-out bit
rare concavity
fluctuation, flutter, waver, flicker, falter, quiver, tremor, tremble, hiccup

Origin

Middle English: from Old French irregularite, from late Latin irregularitas, from irregularis (see irregular).

Rhymes

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