❤️ Not steady 🔷 Not even 🌀 Unusual or abnormal 🪖 Not official army 🪖 Non-army soldier 🛍️ Slightly flawed 🛍️ Flawed products 🔤 Not standard form

irregular

4.0

A word that does not follow the normal rules

noun
/ɪˈrɛɡjələr/

Specialized

: forma irregular

Now we have a lot of irregular verbs in English like stick, stuck, dig, dug.

Examples

Add Ed to irregular verbs like hold, stick, or tear.
The reason for doing that is because it will help you recognize a lot of irregular Old English nouns.
Well, because hoagie on is an irregular verb that takes a genitive direct object.
There's no such thing as perfume irregulars.

Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
Many language learners struggle with irregular verbs that do not follow typical conjugation patterns.
The teacher explained that the past tense forms of some irregular nouns must be memorized instead of following standard rules.
When learning English, it's important to recognize irregular words that deviate from normal spelling conventions.

Synonyms

heteroclite

vsirregular

Specialized

9.9

A word that changes its form in an unusual way, like ox to oxen

has the same meaning but is the common general label

Antonyms

standardized

4.0

Made the same by following set rules

Compounds

irregular basis

4.3

Happening at times that are not regular or predictable

How Regular

irregular

Specialized

4.0

anomalous

23 8.1

Surface Forms

irregular singular

irregulars plural

Morphology

irregular = irregular (transparent) = ir + regular

This is a straightforward metalinguistic noun use of the adjective 'irregular', referring to a word or form that does not follow standard rules.

Etymology

Irregular (a grammar form) comes from the parts in- meaning 'not' and regular meaning 'following a rule'. So an irregular word form, like 'children', does not follow the normal grammar rule and must be learned on its own.