A member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment.

synoniemen: guerilla, guerrilla, insurgent.

Roget 726: combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival^†; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper^†, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough.    prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator, athlete, wrestler; fighting-cock, game-cock; warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent^†; campaigner, veteran; swordsman, sabreur^†, redcoat, military man, Rajput.    armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth^†, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible^†; auxiliary, bersagliere^†, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale [Fr.]; minuteman [U.S.]; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus [Lat.], national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops.    janissary; myrmidon; Mama, Mameluke; spahee^†, spahi^†, Cossack, Croat, Pandoz.    irregular, guerilla, partisan, condottiere^†; franctireur [Fr.], tirailleur^†, bashi-bazouk; [guerilla organization names: list], vietminh, vietcong; shining path; contras; huk, hukbalahap.    mercenary, soldier of fortune; hired gun, gunfighter, gunslinger; bushwhacker, free lance, companion; Hessian.    hit man torpedo, soldier.    levy, draught; Landwehr [G.], Landsturm [G.]; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies.    infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins^†, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy^†, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer etc. (commander) 745; subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman^†; spear bearer; halberdier^†, lancer; musketeer, carabineer^†, rifleman, jager [G.], sharpshooter, yager^†, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer^†; archer, bowman.    horse and foot; horse soldier; cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur [Fr.], uhlan, mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier [Fr.]; Foot Guards, Horse Guards.    gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman^†, matross^†; sapper, sapper and miner; engineer; light infantry, rifles, chasseur [Fr.], zouave; military train, coolie.    army, corps d'armee [Fr.], host, division, battalia^†, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia^†, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers.    war horse, charger, destrier.    marine, man-of-war's man etc. (sailor) 269; navy, wooden walls, naval forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadron.    [ships of war] man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.   M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier.    flattop [Coll.]; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer.    [supporting ships] tender; store ship, troop ship; transport, catamaran; merchant marine.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: partizane, guerrilla, guerrillastrijder, partizaan, vrijheidsstrijder
Pools: partyzant

Merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name.

synoniem: second.

Contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice.

Roget 243: distorted etc. v.; out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric^†, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump^†, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned^†, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy etc. (short) 201; gaunt etc. (thin) 203; bloated etc. 194; scalene; simous^†; taliped^†, talipedic^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 139: irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical^†, unmethodical, variable.   

Roget 83: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous^†; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.    unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful etc. 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre [Fr.], out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis [Lat.]; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues [Fr.], preternatural; denaturalized^†.    heterogeneous, heteroclite [Gramm.], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal^†; asymmetric etc. 243; adelomorphous^†, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous^†.    qualified etc. 469.    singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.    newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 81: polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous^†, multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform^†; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of, of every description, of all sorts and kinds, et hoc genus omne [Lat.]; and what not;? de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis [Lat.].    jumbled, confused, mixed up, discordant; inharmonious, unmatched, unrelated, nonuniform.    omniform^†, omnigenous^†, omnifarious^†; protean (form) 240.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 59: disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear; irregular, desultory; anomalous etc. (unconformable) 83; acephalous^†, deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, immethodical^†; unsymmetric^†, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged etc. (arrange) etc. 60; confused; deranged etc. 61; topsy-turvy etc. (inverted) 218; shapeless etc. 241; disjointed, out of joint.    troublous^†; riotous etc. (violent) 173.    complex etc. 59.1. ... meer laten zien

Roget 16a: diversified varied, irregular, uneven, rough etc. 256; multifarious; multiform etc. 81; of various kinds; all manner of, all sorts of, all kinds of.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: nieregularny

Not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals:
— An irregular heartbeat.

synoniem: unpredictable.

Pools: niemiarowy, nieregularny, niejednostajny, nierówny

used of the military Not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces.

of solids Not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement.

Failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection.

Deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal:
— Highly irregular behavior.

synoniem: atypical.

Pools: nienaturalny

Lacking continuity or regularity:
— An irregular worker.

synoniem: temporary.

of a surface or shape (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical.

Independent in behavior or thought:
— She led a somewhat irregular private life.

synoniemen: maverick, unorthodox.