regular

• regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy
• A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected. - 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 201:

Synonyms: equable uniform unvarying consistent equal even even-keeled monotonous regular samely stable steady uncheckered unvaried

Antonyms: chaotic irregular erratic fluid instable random rocky unstable unsteady variable varying

• April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner. - 2011 April 12, A[lison] L[ouise] Kennedy, The Guardian:

Synonyms: in order ruly tidy all Sir Garnet Bristol fashion and shipshape neat neat and tidy neat as a new pin neat as a pin nice as ninepence orderly prest regular shipshape shipshape and Bristol fashion squared away tight tiptop tosh trig trim well-kept

Antonyms: chaotic tumultuous cluttered disorderly messy ree-raw riotous sluttish tempestuous tumultuary turbulent untidy

Synonyms: decent seemly well-mannered

Antonyms: degenerate irregular

• He made regular visits to go see his mother.

Synonyms: cyclical frequent cyclic periodic periodical regular

Antonyms: irregular noncyclic

• "Walked" is the past tense of the regular verb "to walk".

Synonyms: weak

Antonyms: irregular strong

• “I don’t see how you can write and act such splendid things, Jo. You’re a regular Shakespeare!” exclaimed Beth, who firmly believed that her sisters were gifted with wonderful genius in all things. - 1868-69, Louisa May...
• For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. -...

Synonyms: basic common unremarkable average medial bog-standard commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent conventional customary everyday expected garden variety improminent mundane natural normal ordinary par for the course plain plain vanilla

Antonyms: irregular outlandish weird aberrant abnormal alien anomalous as queer as Dick's hatband bizarre booky curious deviant discrepant eerie eldritch errant exceptional extraordinary fey forby freak freakish freaky fremd

Antonyms: irregular

• Maintaining a high-fibre diet keeps you regular.
• Gulls cawed and wheeled overhead, dropping splatty white cluster bombs on rooftops and pavements. Goodness knows what those gulls eat, but it certainly keeps them regular. - 2015, Bill Bryson, The Road to Little...

• 'And if the knowledge wasn'y well come by, why, you might ha' made up for it by coming to church reg'lar.' - 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:
• Though no minister would visit the Skerburnfoot, or, if he went, departed quicker than he came, the girl Ailie attended regular at the catechising at the mains of Sker. - 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
• "There's only twenty men staying in the house regular," said Ahearne, showing him around[.] - 1946, William Hatfield, Buffalo Jim, Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege, page 47:

• Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.

Synonyms: frequenter habitué patron usual suspects

1. (Singapore) Synonym of regular serviceman; a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, Police Force or Civil Defence Force who has signed on, i.e., chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of national service.

   • Boss, this is the situation. They were regulars in the army. They’ve left the army and are taxi drivers now. He was a commando and he was a state boxer. They don’t earn much and there’s no end. - 2004, Ong Lay Jinn,...

   Synonyms: regular serviceman

• This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars.

• When it comes to regulars, some shows feature ensemble casts in which all the characters are more or less equal and the focus of the show shifts from one member of the ensemble to another from episode to episode. -...

• You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees. - 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat,...