English-Thai Dictionary

irregularity

N การปฏิบัติ ที่ ไม่ เป็นไป ตามระเบียบ ปกติ  disorganization desultoriness kan-pa-ti-bad-ti-mai-pen-pai-tam-ra-biab-pok-ka-ti

 

irregularity

N ความผิดปกติ  abnormality peculiarity regularity kwam-pid-pok-ka-ti

 

irregularity

N ความ ไม่ เรียบ  ความ ขรุขระ  unevenness bumpiness kwam-mai-riab

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IRREGULARITY

n. 1. Deviation from a straight line or from any common or established rule; deviation from method or order; as the irregularity of proceedings.
2. Deviation from law, human, or divine, or from moral rectitude; inordinate practice; vice. It is a favorable symptom when a profligate man becomes ashamed of his irregularities.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

IRREGULARITY

Ir *reg `u *lar "i *ty, n.; pl. Irregularities. Etym: [Cf. F.irrégularité. ]

 

Defn: The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

irregularity

ir reg u lar i ty |iˌregyəˈlaritē əˌrɛɡjəˈlɛrədi | ▶noun ( pl. irregularities ) the state or quality of being irregular: there is evidence that fraud and irregularity continue on a large scale. • (usu. irregularities ) a thing that is irregular in form or nature: irregularities of the heartbeat | financial irregularities. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French irregularite, from late Latin irregularitas, from irregularis (see irregular ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

irregularity

ir |regu ¦lar |ity |ɪˌrɛgjuˈlarɪti | ▶noun ( pl. irregularities ) [ mass noun ] the state or quality of being irregular: there is evidence that fraud and irregularity continue on a large scale | the irregularity of his breathing. • [ count noun ] (usu. irregularities ) a thing that is irregular in form or nature: irregularities of the heartbeat | financial irregularities. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French irregularite, from late Latin irregularitas, from irregularis (see irregular ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

irregularity

irregularity noun 1 the irregularity of the coastline: asymmetry, nonuniformity, unevenness, crookedness, lopsidedness; jaggedness, raggedness, indentation. 2 the irregularity of the surface: roughness, bumpiness, unevenness; lumpiness. 3 irregularity in the fabric: flaw, damage, imperfection; blemish, mark, spot, stain. 4 the irregularity of the bus service: inconsistency, unsteadiness, unevenness, fitfulness, patchiness, instability, variability, changeableness, fluctuation, unpredictability, unreliability. 5 financial irregularities: impropriety, wrongdoing, misconduct, dishonesty, corruption, immorality; informal shadiness, crookedness, dodginess. 6 the staff noted any irregularity in operation: abnormality, unusualness, strangeness, oddness, singularity, anomaly, deviation, aberration, peculiarity, idiosyncrasy.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

irregularity

irregularity noun 1 the irregularity of the coastline: asymmetry, lack of symmetry, non-uniformity, unevenness, crookedness, lopsidedness, contortion, deformity, jaggedness, raggedness, cragginess, indentation. ANTONYMS regularity; straightness. 2 the irregularity of the road surface: 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: 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: 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. ANTONYMS regularity; steadiness. 5 the monitor showed every little irregularity of her baby's heartbeat: fluctuation, flutter, waver, flicker, falter, quiver, tremor, tremble, hiccup. 6 there has been irregularity in the conduct of the election | a probe into alleged financial irregularities at the club: impropriety, incorrectness, wrongdoing, misconduct, illegitimacy, dishonesty, corruption, immorality, unscrupulousness, unprofessionalism; inappropriateness, unacceptability, unseemliness, indecorousness, indiscretion, indelicacy; unorthodoxy, unconventionality; informal shadiness, crookedness. ANTONYMS correctness. 7 staff kept a vigilant watch and noted any irregularity in operation: abnormality, unusualness, uncommonness, strangeness, waywardness, oddness, unexpectedness, singularity, atypicality, anomaly, anomalousness, deviation, divergence, aberrancy, aberration, freakishness, peculiarity, curiousness, eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, quirkiness, unorthodoxy.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

irregularity

ir reg u lar i ty /ɪrèɡjəlǽrəti /名詞 複 -ties 1 U 不規則, ふぞろい ; 不規律 .2 C 不規則なもの [事 ]; 〖-ties 〗(道の )でこぼこ .3 C 不法な行為, 反則 .4 C 〖-ties 〗だらしない行動, 不品行 .5 U ｟米 ｠便秘 (!constipationの婉曲表現 ) .