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Synonyms of irregularity in English:

irregularity


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noun

1‘the irregularity of the coastline’

SYNONYMS
asymmetry, lack of symmetry, non-uniformity, unevenness, crookedness, lopsidedness, contortion, deformity, jaggedness, raggedness, cragginess, indentation
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regularity, straightness

2‘the irregularity of the road surface’

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roughness, bumpiness, unevenness, coarseness
lumpiness, knobbliness
rare knobbiness
ANTONYMS

regularity, smoothness

3‘any irregularities in the concrete will be masked by the soft board on top’

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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

4‘villagers complained about the irregularity of the bus service’

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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
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regularity, steadiness

5‘the monitor showed every little irregularity of her baby's heartbeat’

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fluctuation, flutter, waver, flicker, falter, quiver, tremor, tremble, hiccup

6‘there has been irregularity in the conduct of the election’

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impropriety, incorrectness, wrongdoing, misconduct, illegitimacy, dishonesty, corruption, immorality, unscrupulousness, unprofessionalism
inappropriateness, unacceptability, unseemliness, indecorousness, indiscretion, indelicacy
unorthodoxy, unconventionality
informal shadiness, crookedness
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correctness

7‘staff kept a vigilant watch and noted any irregularity in operation’

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abnormality, unusualness, uncommonness, strangeness, waywardness, oddness, unexpectedness, singularity, atypicality, anomaly, anomalousness, deviation, divergence, aberrancy, aberration, freakishness, peculiarity, curiousness, eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, quirkiness, unorthodoxy