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irregularly

/ɪˈɹɛɡjʊləli/

irregularly adverb: in an irregular manner; without rule, method, or order.

Adverb

irregularly (comparative more irregularly, superlative most irregularly)

  1. In an irregular manner; without rule, method, or order.
    • A woman may have every quality or attribute of marriageableness who menstruates irregularly, or rarely, or even who has never menstruated at all.1884, The Medical Age, volume 2, page 358
    • Seed micromorphology:—Seed coat is laticostate. Epidermal cells are elliptical to irregularly pentagonal. Cell walls are thickened mostly at the corners, the boundaries are raised […]2018, B Özüdoğru, “Phylogenetic position, taxonomy, distribution, and conservation status of the rare and poorly-known Noccaea rosularis, the generic type of Masmenia …”, in Phytotaxa

irregularly meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Punjabi

irregularly in Bengali

irregularly
ইতস্তত itostoto

irregularly in Malayalam

asymmetrically, unevenly
ക്രമമില്ലാതെ, സമമാനതയില്ലാതെ, അസമമായി, നിരപ്പല്ലാതെ, പരുപരെ, നിമ്നോന്നതമമായി
in fits and starts, by fits and starts, erratically
ക്രമരഹിതമായി, ക്രമംകെട്ട്, വന്നും പോയും, ഇടവിട്ട്, ഇടവിട്ടിടവിട്ട്, വിട്ടുവിട്ട ഇടയ്ക്കിടെ

irregularly in Punjabi

irregularly, haphazardly; improperly
ਬੇਕਾਇਦਾ bekāidā

Examples of irregularly in a sentence

  • An iconograph can take the form of irregularly shaped letters or (especially in the case of poems) irregularly aligned text.
  • The gently undulating interstream timbered lands border the shallow valleys and intertongue irregularly with the prairie lands.
  • The remarkable displacement of the cœlom by an irregularly distended system of blood-spaces, “a hæmocœl” (which, Prof.

All 20 example sentences with irregularly

Forms of irregularly

comparativemore irregularly
superlativemost irregularly

Origin of irregularly

From irregular + -ly.

Questions about irregularly

What does irregularly mean?
Irregularly means in an irregular manner; without rule, method, or order.
What is irregularly in Bengali?
Irregularly in Bengali is ইতস্তত (itostoto). See Irregularly meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is irregularly?
Irregularly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce irregularly?
Irregularly is pronounced /ɪˈɹɛɡjʊləli/ (UK).

Words near irregularly in the dictionary

  1. irregularizations
  2. irregularize
  3. irregularized
  4. irregularizes
  5. irregularizing
  6. irregularly
  7. irregularness
  8. irregulars
  9. irregulate
  10. irregulated
  11. irregulates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: irregularly (page history and authors); ইতস্তত (Bengali) (page history and authors); irregularly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ਬੇਕਾਇਦਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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