English Explanatory Dictionary

regular

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
  2. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
  3. Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
  4. Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
  5. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
  6. Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
  7. Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
  8. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
  9. Following a set or common pattern; according to the general rules of a given language.
  10. Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
  11. Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
  12. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
adv
  1. Regularly, on a regular basis.
noun
  1. A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
  2. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
  3. A member of the armed forces or police force.
  4. Synonym of regular serviceman; a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, Police Force or Civil Defence Force who has signed on, i.e., chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of national service.
  5. A frequent customer, client or business partner.
  6. A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast.
  7. A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
  8. Anything that is normal or standard.
  9. A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
  10. A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
  11. A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.

Pronunciation

regʹyo͝olər /ˈɹɛɡjʊlə/ regʹyələr regʹlər /ˈɹɛɡjəlɚ/ [ˈɹɛɡjɪ̈lɚ] /ˈɹɛɡl̩ɚ/ [ˈɹɛɡl̩ɚ] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-regular.wav En-us-regular.ogg /ˈɾɛɡjʉləɾ/ /ˈɾɛɡjələɾ/ regʹ(y)o͝olər /ˈrɛɡ(j)ʊlə(r)/

Word forms

regular more regular most regular reg'lar reg reg. regulars

Etymology

From Middle English reguler, from Anglo-Norman reguler, Middle French reguler, regulier, and their source, Latin rēgulāris (“continuing rules for guidance”), from rēgula (“rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“move in a straight line”).

Synonyms

equable uniform unvarying consistent equal even even-keeled monotonous regular samely stable steady uncheckered unvaried in order ruly tidy neat neat and tidy neat as a new pin neat as a pin nice as ninepence orderly prest shipshape tight tiptop tosh trig trim well-kept decent seemly well-mannered cyclical frequent cyclic periodic periodical weak basic common unremarkable average medial bog-standard commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent conventional customary everyday expected garden variety improminent mundane natural normal ordinary

Antonyms

irregular non-regular nonregular chaotic fluid instable rocky unstable unsteady variable varying tumultuous cluttered disorderly messy ree-raw riotous sluttish tempestuous tumultuary turbulent untidy degenerate noncyclic strong outlandish weird aberrant abnormal alien anomalous as queer as Dick's hatband bizarre booky curious deviant discrepant eerie eldritch errant exceptional extraordinary fey forby freak freakish freaky fremd funny heteroclite hinky incongruous incongruitous kooky monstrous nonstandard odd out of the ordinary outré peculiar

Related words

nap the regulars quasiregular rail regal régime regimen regularity regularly regulate regulation rule semiregular register

Derived words

antiregular biregular equiregular extraregular hyperregular on a regular basis on the regular overregular preregular proregular regioregular regular army regular as clockwork regular black hole regular closed regular coffee regular continued fraction regular dividend regular-duty regular element regular expression regular folk regular folks regular function regular graph regular grid regular guy regular hexahedron regular insulin regularisation regularise regularization regularize regular Joe regular language regular map regular muscle-prism regular necrophiliac regularness regular open regular order regular polygon regular prime regular script regular space regular star macromolecule regular tessellation regular verb semi-regular stereoregular subregular superregular unregular

Translations

Armenian: կանոնավոր Bulgarian: официа́лен Bulgarian: форма́лен Chinese Mandarin: 有規律的 /有规律的 Danish: regelmæssig Dutch: regelmatig Finnish: säännönmukainen Finnish: säännöllinen French: en ordre Galician: regular Hindi: नियमित Hungarian: szabályos Hungarian: szabályszerű Irish: rialta Italian: regolare Latin: legitimus Latin: legitima Persian: باقاعده Portuguese: regular Russian: пра́вильный Ukrainian: пра́вильний
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