irregular
adjective
without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc..
irregulars
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pluralof irregular.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Of the distinct combats that historians have identified, more than 90% were not primarily fought by formally organized regular troops but instead involved district militias and other irregulars, including Native American warriors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
In short, they’ve created the only thing better than a bar for regulars: a bar for irregulars.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2021
A small percentage of galaxies with more disorganized shapes are classified as irregulars.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Then he materialized, followed by a raggle-taggle army, Muhammad Ali’s irregulars, your basic rainbow coalition of the late 1960s, falling in step behind him, chanting: “Muhammad Ali is our champ! Muhammad Ali is our champ!”
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2016
When a small galaxy runs into a larger one face-on it can produce one of the loveliest of the rare irregulars, a ring galaxy thousands of light-years across, set against the velvet of intergalactic space.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
