Irregularity vs Muddle - What's the difference?
irregularity | muddle |
(countable) An instance of being irregular.
(uncountable) The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.
(countable) An object or event that is not regular or ordinary.
(countable) A violation of rules.
To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
To dabble in mud.
To make turbid or muddy.
* L'Estrange
To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
* Bentley
* Arbuthnot
To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
* Hazlitt
A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
As nouns the difference between irregularity and muddle
is that irregularity is (countable) an instance of being irregular while muddle is a mixture; a confusion; a garble.As a verb muddle is
to mix together, to mix up; to confuse.irregularity
English
Noun
- an irregularity of surface
- An investigation of the irregularities in the company's accounts uncovered a large-scale fraud.
Antonyms
* regularitymuddle
English
Verb
(muddl)- Young children tend to muddle their words.
- He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.
- (Jonathan Swift)
- He did ill to muddle the water.
- Their old master Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded with them, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.
- often drunk, always muddled
- They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.
Derived terms
* muddler (agent noun) * muddle along * muddle through * muddle upNoun
(en noun)- The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.