regular

Plural: regulars

Noun

• A frequent or habitual customer or participant.
• a regular patron
• a soldier in the regular army
• a dependable follower (especially in party politics)
  • "he is one of the party regulars"
• a garment size for persons of average height and weight
• 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 member of an armed forces or police force.
• A frequent customer, client or business partner.
• A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
• Anything that is normal or standard.
• A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
• A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
• A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
• Synonym of regular serviceman; a soldier in the Singapore Armed Forces who has chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of service in the army.

Adjective

• in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
  • "his regular calls on his customers"
  • "regular meals"
  • "regular duties"
• (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces
  • "the regular army"
• (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula
• not constipated

Adjective Satellite

• often used as intensifiers
  • "a regular morass of details"
  • "a regular nincompoop"
• conforming to a standard or pattern
  • "following the regular procedure of the legislature"
  • "a regular electrical outlet"
• regularly scheduled for fixed times
  • "at a regular meeting of the PTA"
  • "regular bus departures"
• in accord with regular practice or procedure
  • "took his regular morning walk"
  • "her regular bedtime"
• occurring at fixed intervals
  • "a regular beat"
• relating to a person who does something regularly
  • "a regular customer"
• symmetrically arranged
  • "regular features"
  • "a regular polygon"
• not deviating from what is normal
  • "her regular bedtime"
• officially full-time
  • "regular students"

Adj

• Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
• Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
• Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
• Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
• Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
• Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
• Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
• Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
• Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language.
• Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
• Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
• Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
• Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
• Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
• Isometric.
• Riding with the left foot forward.
• Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
• Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
• Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
• A von Neumann regular: such that every left module (over the given ring) is flat.

Adv

• Regularly, on a regular basis.

Examples

• "Walked" is the past tense of the regular verb "to walk".
• a regular flower; a regular sea urchin
• a regular genius; a regular John Bull
• As a Scrabble regular, he knew all the opponent’s common opening moves.
• Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.
• He made regular visits to go see his mother.
• Maintaining a high-fibre diet keeps you regular.
• regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy
• This gentleman was one of the architect's regulars.

Synonyms

even, fixture, habitue, steady, unconstipated, veritable, abject, absolute, absolutely flat, arrant, average, banal, basic, bog standard, bog-standard, categoric, categorical, common, common as bums, common as muck, common or garden variety, common-or-garden, commonplace, complete, congruent, consistent, consummate, conventional, customary, cyclic, cyclical, decent, dime a dozen, downright, equable, equal, even-keeled, everyday, expected, familiar, frequent, frequenter, full, full-blown, full-bore, full-on, garden variety, general, habitué, in order, mere, monotonous, mundane, natural, neat, neat and tidy, neat as a new pin, neat as a pin, nice as ninepence, nonrare, normal, orderly, ordinary, out-and-out, outright, par for the course, patron, pedestrian, perfect, periodic, periodical, plain, plain Jane, plain vanilla, prest, proper, pure, quotidian, regular, regular serviceman, right, root and branch, routinary, routine, ruly, run-of-the-mill, samely, seemly, sheer, shipshape, stable, standard, standard issue, straight-out, ten a penny, thorough, thoroughgoing, tidy, tight, tiptop, tosh, total, trig, trim, true, two a penny, typical, unadulterated, unalloyed, unattenuated, uncheckered, uncompromising, unconditional, unexceptional, unfettered, uniform, unmitigated, unqualified, unremarkable, unreserved, unrestricted, unstrange, unvaried, unvarying, usual, usual suspects, utter, vulgar, weak, well-kept, well-mannered, wholesale, workaday

Antonyms

constipated, irregular, chaotic, common, degenerate, familiar, goofy, inevitable, intermediate, moderate, non-regular, noncyclic, nonregular, normal, orderly, outlandish, steady, strong, tumultuous, weird

Related Words

nap the regulars, quasiregular, rail, regal, regimen, register, regularity, regularly, regulate, regulation, rule, régime, semiregular

Anagrams of regular