-n. 7. (all of merchandise) factory, second, third. 8. Military, guerrilla, partisan, maquis, Fr. maqui-sard, underground or resistance fighter, bush fighter, Sl. bushwhacker; the resistance, the underground. irregularity, n. 1. asymmetry, lack of symmetry, unequality, unequalness; unevenness, roughness, jaggedness, ruggedness, cragginess; lumpiness, bunchiness, humpiness; crookedness, circuitousness, circuity, roundaboutness, tortuousness, deviousness.
2. unmethodicalness, immethodicalness, methodless-ness, inconsistency, desultoriness, unsystematicalness, systemlessness, inconstancy, erraticism, eccentricity, capriciousness, caprice, orderlessness, variableness, variation, changeableness, changeability, fickleness, mutability, mutableness; disorderliness, confusion, disarrangement, unsettledness; spasmodicalness, fitfulness, uncertainty, unpunctualness, disconnectedness.
3. oddness, strangeness, queerness, curiousness, bizarreness, freakishness; singularity, singularness, exceptionality, exceptionalness, unusualness, uncommonness, uncommonality, unconventionality.
4. anomaly, aberration, perversion, Rare, anomal-ism; abnormality, abnormity, monster, monstrosity, mutant, freak, heteroclite, malformation, miscreation, abortion, deformity; oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, rarity.
5. deviation, aberrance, aberrancy, divergence, digression; lawlessness, unruliness, disorderliness, wildness, turbulence; impropriety, indecency, immorality, licentiousness, lasciviousness, lewdness, promiscuity, promiscuousness, Inf. looseness, laxity; wantonness, depravity, degeneracy, dissoluteness, dissipation; in-ordinacy, intemperance, excessiveness, extravagance. irregularly, adv. 1. intermittently, periodically, off and on, hot and cold, by turns, at intervals, at irregular intervals.
2. unmethodically, methodlessly, unsystematically, systemlessly, desultorily, erratically; fitfully, spasmodically, unevenly, jerkily, uncertainly, disconnectedly, aperiodically, unpunctually, by fits and starts, by jerks, by snatches. irrelevant, adj. inapposite, nongermane, impertinent, inapplicable, immaterial, foreign, alien, unrelated, unconnected; extraneous, gratuitous, unessential, insignificant; beside the point, neither here nor there, beside the question, beside the mark, nothing to do with it, Inf. off base, not to the point, Inf. off the beam, Inf. off the wall; unwarranted, out of place, uncalled-for, inappropriate, malapropos; inconsistent, illogical, inconsequent, self-contradictory, incongruous. irreligion, n. 1. atheism, godlessness, ungodliness, unholiness, disbelief, unbelief, nonbelief, unbelievingness, nonspirituality, nonspiritualness; infidelity, heathenism, heathenness, heathendom, heathenhood, paganism; agnosticism, skepticism, doubt, Pyrrhonism, nihilism.
2. impiety, impiousness, irreverence, irreligiousness; apostasy, straying, recidivism, backsliding, laxity; heresy, hereticalness, iconoclasm, antireligion, antireligiousness, antireligiosity, sacrilegiousness, sacrilege, sinfulness, wickedness, evilness, badness, blasphemousness, blasphemy, profaneness, profanity. irreligious, adj. 1. atheistic, disbelieving, unbelieving, nonbelieving, godless, ungodly, nonspiritual; infidel, infidelic, heathenish, heathen, paganistic, pagan, unenlightened; agnostic, skeptical, doubting, questioning, Pyrrhonic, nihilistic.