| Main Entry: | malfunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breakdown, failure |
Synonyms: |
bug*, defect, fault, flaw, glitch*, gremlin, impairment, slip |
Antonyms: |
perfection, working |
| Main Entry: | come unglued |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose one's cool |
Synonyms: |
break down, come apart at the seams, come apart at the seams, come unstuck, come unwrapped, disintegrate, fall apart, fall to bits, fall to bits, fall to pieces, fall to pieces, go to pieces, malfunction |
| Main Entry: | glitch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | error |
Synonyms: |
bug*, defect, flaw, hitch, malfunction, misfire, mishap, problem, setback, snafu, snag, something wrong |
| Main Entry: | miscarriage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure |
Synonyms: |
abortion, botch, breakdown, defeat, error, interruption, malfunction, misadventure, mischance, misfire, mishap, miss, mistake, nonsuccess, perversion, undoing |
Antonyms: |
carriage, success |
| Main Entry: | trouble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad health |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailment, complaint, curse, defect, disability, disease, disorder, failure, illness, malady, malfunction, upset |
Antonyms: |
fitness, good health |
| Main Entry: | irregularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that is irregular |
Synonyms: |
abnormality, allowance, anomaly, characteristic, deviation, dispensation, eccentricity, exception, excess, exemption, innovation, laxity, looseness, malformation, malfunction, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, privilege, quirk, rarity, singularity, strangeness, unconformity, uniqueness, unorthodoxy |
Antonyms: |
custom, regularity, rule |
| Main Entry: | act up (malfunction) |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to malfunction |
Synonyms: |
break, break down, conk out, fail, function go on the blink, improperly, jam, malfunction, not work, stall, stop running |
Antonyms: |
function properly |
| Main Entry: | irregularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
anarchical, anomalous, by planets, capricious, chaotic, complex, complexed, complicated, confused, deranged, desultory, disjointed, dislocated, disorderly, entangled, fitful, flickering, heteroclite, immethodical, indiscriminate, inextricable, intricate, involved, irreducible, irregular, knotted, orderless, out of gear, out of joint, out of order, out of place, out of sorts, perplexed, promiscuous, rambling, raveled, rhapsodical, riotous, shapeless, slovenly, spasmodic, straggling, tangled, topsy, unarranged, uncertain, unmethodical, unpunctual, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy
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