Dictionary Definition
regular adj
1 in accordance with fixed order or procedure or
principle; "his regular calls on his customers"; "regular meals";
"regular duties" [ant: irregular]
2 often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass
of details"; "a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable swine" [syn:
regular(a),
veritable(a)]
3 conforming to a standard or pattern; "following
the regular procedure of the legislature"; "a regular electrical
outlet"
4 (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be
measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric
formula [ant: irregular]
5 regularly scheduled for fixed times; "at a
regular meeting of the PTA"; "regular bus departures"
6 in accord with regular practice or procedure;
"took his regular morning walk"; "her regular bedtime"
7 occurring at fixed intervals; "a regular beat";
"the even rhythm of his breathing" [syn: even]
8 relating to a person who does something
regularly; "a regular customer"; "a steady drinker" [syn: steady]
9 (used of the military) belonging to or engaged
in by legitimate army forces; "the regular army" [ant: irregular]
10 not constipated [syn: unconstipated] [ant:
constipated]
11 symmetrically arranged; "even features";
"regular features"; "a regular polygon" [syn: even]
12 not deviating from what is normal; "her
regular bedtime"
13 officially full-time; "regular students"
Noun
1 a regular patron; "an habitue of the
racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture" [syn: habitue, fixture]
2 a soldier in the regular army
3 a dependable follower (especially in party
politics); "he is one of the party regulars"
4 a garment size for persons of average height
and weight
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From reguler, from regularis "continuing rules for guidance," from regula "rule," from *reg- "move in a straight line"Pronunciation
Adjective
- With constant frequency or pattern.
- Normal; ordinary
- Obeying rules.
- (of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern.
- The verb "to walk" is regular.
- The noun "mouse" has the irregular plural "mice".
- The verb "to walk" is regular.
- Frequent or
common
- He made regular visits to go see his mother.
- : Riding with the left foot forward.
- Exemplary;
excellent example of;
utter.
- a regular genius
- a regular John Bull
- a regular genius
- (of a polygon or a polyhedron) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size.
Antonyms
Translations
with constant frequency
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 常 (cháng)
- Czech: pravidelný
- Dutch: regelmatig, regelmatige
- Esperanto: regula
- Finnish: säännöllinen
- French: régulier
- German: regulär, regelmäßig
- Hebrew: רגיל
- Hungarian: szabályos
- Indonesian: beraturan
- Italian: regolare
- Japanese: 規則 (きそく, kisoku), 規則動詞 (きそくどうし, kisoku-dōshi)
- Korean: 정식의 (jeongsik-ui)
- Polish: regularny , regularna , regularne
- Portuguese: regular
- Russian: регулярный (reguljárnyj)
- Spanish: regular
- Swedish: regelbunden
normal
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 平常 (píngcháng)
- Dutch: gewoon, gewone
- Finnish: säännöllinen
- German: normal, gewöhnlich
- Hungarian: rendes
obeying rules
- Dutch: regelmatig, regelmatige
- Finnish: säännöllinen
grammar
- Czech: pravidelný
- Dutch: regelmatig, regelmatige
- French: régulier
- German: regelmäßig
- Polish: regularny , regularna , regularne
- Portuguese: regular
- Spanish: regular
Noun
- A member of the British Army as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve.
- A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
- A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
Translations
member of the British Army
routine visitor
- Dutch: vaste klant
- Finnish: vakioasiakas, kanta-asiakas
- German: Stammgast
- Italian: cliente m|f
Related terms
Portuguese
Verb
regularAdjective
Verb
regular- to regulate.
- to control.
- to adjust.
- to put in order.
Conjugation
es-conj-ar regulRelated terms
Extensive Definition
The term regular can mean normal or obeying
rules. Regular may refer to:
In organizations:
- Regular Army for usage in the U.S. Army
- Regular Force for usage in the Canadian Forces
- Regular Masonic jurisdictions, or regularity, refers to the constitutional mechanism by which Freemasonry Grand Lodges or Grand Orients give one another mutual recognition.
In mathematics, geometry, and statistics:
- Regular polygon, a polygon where all angles and all sides are equal
- Regular polyhedron, a 3-dimensional equivalent to a regular polygon
- Regular category, a kind of category that has similarities to both Abelian categories and to the category of sets
- Regular prime, a certain kind of prime number
- Regular graph, a graph such that all the degrees of the vertices are equal
- Regular cardinal, a cardinal number that is equal to its cofinality
- Regular space, a topological space in which a point and a closed set can be separated by neighbourhoods
- Regularity, the degree of differentiability of a Smooth function
- Regularity, a necessary condition in Fisher information and in finding the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound
- Axiom of Regularity, also called the Axiom of Foundation, an axiom of set theory asserting the non-existence of certain infinite chains of sets
In other uses:
- Regular character, a main character who appears more frequently and/or prominently than a recurring character
- Regular expression, a type of pattern describing a set of strings in computer science
- Regular verb, a grammatical term for a verb with derived forms that are typical for the language
See also
regular in French: Régulier
regular in Japanese: レギュラー
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, annual, approved, armed force, armed
service, army, arranged, arrant, array, automatic, average, avgas, balanced, beaten, bimonthly, biweekly, bona fide, born, bourgeois, broad-based,
businesslike,
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fine, finished, fixed, fixture, flagrant, flat, forces, formal, fortnightly, fossil oil,
frequent, frequenter, garden, garden-variety, gas, gasoline, generally accepted,
glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glaring, good, gross, ground forces, ground
troops, habitual,
habitue, hackneyed, harmonious, hebdomadal, heeler, high-octane gas,
high-test, homogeneous, host, hourly, household, immutable, in hand, incessant, intensive, intolerable, invariable, kerosene, kosher, lead-free gas, legal, legions, legitimate, leiotrichous, level, likeable, low-lead gas,
loyalist, machine gun,
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military establishment, monolithic, monthly, motor oil, natural, naturalistic, no great
shakes, normal, normative, obtaining, occupation force,
of a piece, official,
okay, omnibus, omnipresent, ordered, orderly, ordinary, orthodox, oscillating, out-and-out,
outright, paraffin, paratroops, partisan, party faithful, party
hack, party man, party member, party wheelhorse, patron, perennial, perfect, periodic, permanent, perpetual, persistent, pervasive, petrol, petroleum, plain, plane, plastic, pleasant, plumb, popular, positive, precious, predictable, predominating, premium
gas, prescribed,
prescriptive,
prevailing, prevalent, profound, pronounced, proper, proportional, proportioned, prospect, pulsating, pure, quarterly, quintessential, radical, rank, rank and file, ranks, rapid, realistic, received, recognized, recurrent, recurring, registered
Democrat, registered Republican, regular army, regular as
clockwork, regular customer, regulars, regulation, repeated, repetitive, rhythmical, robotlike, rock oil, routine, run-of-mine,
run-of-the-mill, sample,
scheduled, seasonal, set, settled, shattering, sheer, shocking, ski troops, smooth, smooth-shaven,
smooth-textured, soldiery, stable, staccato, stalwart, standard, standing army,
stark, stark-staring,
steadfast, steady, stereotyped, stock, storm troops, straight, stuttering, suave, suburban, sucker, superlative, surpassing, sustained, sweeping, symmetric, symmetrical, systematic, the line, the
military, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing,
through-and-through, time-honored, total, traditional, trite, troops, true to form, true to
type, typal, typic, typical, ubiquitous, unalloyed, unbearable, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unconditional, unconscionable, undeniable, undeviating, undifferentiated,
undistorted,
undiversified,
unequivocal,
unexceptional,
uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, universal, unmitigated, unnoteworthy, unqualified, unrelieved, unremarkable, unremitting, unreserved, unrestricted, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, unspectacular, unspoiled, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying, usual, utter, veritable, vernacular, vibrating, ward heeler,
weekly, well-balanced,
well-known, well-ordered, well-proportioned, well-regulated,
well-set, well-set-up, well-trodden, well-worn, wheelhorse, wholesale, widespread, wonted