Extraordinary vs Irregular - What's the difference?
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Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;
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Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
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Of a surface, rough.
Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
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, title= Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other).
A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and, often, does not follow regular army tactics.
Irregular is a synonym of extraordinary.
As adjectives the difference between extraordinary and irregular
is that extraordinary is not ordinary; exceptional; unusual while irregular is nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.As a noun irregular is
a soldier who is not a member of an official military force and, often, does not follow regular army tactics.extraordinary
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Adjective
(en adjective)2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France, passage=Tony Woodcock's early try and a penalty from fourth-choice fly-half Stephen Donald were enough to see the All Blacks home in an extraordinary match that defied all pre-match predictions.}}
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
Usage notes
* Can be said of all kinds of objects including people, events, things, and terms. * The pronunciation "extrordinary" is often preferred so as to avoid confusion with "extra ordinary", which would be defined as "more ordinary than usual".Synonyms
*Antonyms
* everyday, normal, ordinary, regular, usualDerived terms
* extraordinary optical transmission * extraordinary professor * extraordinary renditionirregular
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(wikipedia irregular)Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight, passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus ) undergo an irregular , nomadic type of nocturnal migration.}}
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
