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regular

30 3.9
Very bad in a strong, informal way
  • adjective
  • /ˈrɛɡjələr/
  • Informal
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  • I asked you a question just now in regular guy English.
  • a regular old mess
  • a regular dumb kid

Examples

  • You know, let's just have a regular old friendship.

  • I mean, what kind of regular person just up and buys a place like this?

  • But in like the regular world that it's not cool.

  • So no, these are not regular relationship problems.

  • So so a regular person who doesn't come from money.

  • Marcus had booked a table for his anniversary at his favorite restaurant, where he was a regular customer.

    Academic text (2018)
  • By doing so, teachers might see more positive effects of students with disabilities being included in the regular classroom.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Man, Sonia, you are the most practical, logical, "regular folk" I know online!

    Blog text (1)
  • They're just regular Joes like me.

  • He is just a regular guy who enjoys simple things in life.

Synonyms

veritable
vsregular
37 7.4

Being really true or real to make a description stronger

is informal and intensifies a quality often with strong negative feeling

Antonyms

2.2

Not common and different from what people expect

Idioms

Happens often at set times

Compounds

5 3.0

Full-time official soldiers who serve a country on land in peace and war

Planned work to check and fix machines or equipment so they keep working

An amount of money you give at fixed times, for example each month

9.9

A solid with the same flat faces that are regular polygons and with all angles the same

regular convex solid
  • Specialized
9.0

A three-dimensional shape whose faces are the same flat shapes with all sides equal and equal angles between them

regular pentagon
  • Specialized
3.7

A five-sided shape with all sides and all angles equal

regular polygon
  • Specialized
4.2

A flat shape with all sides the same length and all angles equal

regular polyhedron
  • Specialized
8.6

A solid shape with identical flat faces that are regular polygons like a cube

regular prism
  • Specialized
5.5

A solid with two equal regular flat shapes as ends and rectangular sides

regular dodecahedron
  • Specialized
9.6

A solid with twelve equal five-sided flat faces

regular hexagon
  • Specialized
3.4

A six-sided shape with all sides and all angles equal

regular hexahedron
  • Specialized
5.9

A solid shape that has six equal square faces

regular icosahedron
  • Specialized
9.2

A solid with twenty triangles that all have equal sides

regular octahedron
  • Specialized
8.4

A solid with eight identical triangle faces and the same angles

regular pyramid
  • Specialized
6.8

A solid with a flat base with all sides equal and triangular faces that meet at one top point

A pattern where something happens again at fixed times

regular tetrahedron
  • Specialized
7.4

A solid with four triangles, each triangle having three equal sides

How Light

low-cal
  • Informal
5 3.1
light
33 2.4
regular
  • Informal
30 3.9
calorific
6.1

Surface Forms

regular positive
regularer comparative
regularest superlative

Etymology

Regular originally meant 'according to a rule' from Latin regula 'rule', but a helpful way to remember the informal use is to think of it as 'proper' or 'complete'; for example, a 'regular mess' means a full or serious mess used for emphasis.