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| Main Entry: | regular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normal, common |
| Synonyms: | approved, bona fide, classic, commonplace, correct, customary, daily, established, everyday, formal, general, habitual, lawful, legitimate, natural, official, ordinary, orthodox, prevailing, prevalent, proper, routine, run-of-the-mill*, sanctioned, standard, time-honored, traditional, typical, unexceptional, unvarying, usual, typic |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, anomalous, eccentric, extraordinary, irregular, rare, uncommon, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | regular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | orderly, consistent, balanced |
| Synonyms: | accordant, automatic, classified, congruous, consonant, constant, dependable, efficient, established, even, exact, expected, fixed, flat, formal, harmonious, invariable, level, measured, mechanical, methodical, momentary, ordered, organized, periodic, precise, probable, punctual, rational, recurrent, regulated, rhythmic, routine, serial, set, smooth, standardized, stated, steady, straight, successive, symmetrical, systematic, uniform, alternating, arranged, cyclic, in order, patterned |
| Antonyms: | changing, disorderly, inconsistent, infrequent, irregular, unsteady, variable, imbalanced |
| Main Entry: | accepted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generally agreed upon |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, acknowledged, approved, authorized, chosen, confirmed, conventional, current, customary, endorsed, established, fashionable, in vogue, kosher*, normal, orthodox, popular, preferred, received, recognized, regular, sanctioned, standard, straight*, time-honored, universal, unopposed, usual, welcomed, allowed, arrived at, card-carrying, credited, legit, okayed, passed, touted |
| Antonyms: | irregular, questionable, unconventional, unorthodox |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, especially regarding an agreement |
| Synonyms: | accordant, agreeing, amiable, civil, cordial, courteous, cozy, good-humored, harmonious, kind, kindly, like-minded, mellow, neighborly, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, polite, regular, sociable, sympathetic, understanding, clubby, concordant, empathic, right nice, square shooting |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
| Antonyms: | hostile, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | businesslike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | efficient, professional |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, careful, concentrated, correct, diligent, direct, earnest, effective, enterprising, expeditious, hardworking, industrious, intent, matter-of-fact, methodical, orderly, organized, painstaking, practical, practiced, purposeful, regular, routine, sedulous, serious, skillful, systematic, thorough, disciplined, well-ordered, workaday |
| Antonyms: | amateur, disorganized, inefficient, unprofessional, unbusinesslike |
| Main Entry: | characteristic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | typical; distinguishing |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, diagnostic, discriminating, distinctive, distinguishing, especial, essential, exclusive, fixed, idiosyncratic, inborn, inbred, indicative, individual, ingrained, inherent, innate, local, marked, native, normal, original, particular, peculiar, personal, private, proper, regular, representative, singular, special, specific, symbolic, symptomatic, unique, differentiating, discriminative, emblematic, individualistic, individualizing |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, untypical, uncharacteristic |
| Main Entry: | conformable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate; matching |
| Synonyms: | adapted, agreeable, alike, amenable, applicable, assorted, comparable, compliant, consistent, docile, fitted, fitting, harmonious, in agreement, like, matched, obedient, orderly, proper, regular, resembling, similar, submissive, suitable, suited, tractable, unified, useable, well-regulated |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, nonconforming, mismatched |
| Main Entry: | continual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | constant, incessant |
| Synonyms: | ceaseless, connected, consecutive, continuous, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, frequent, interminable, permanent, perpetual, persistent, recurrent, regular, relentless, repeated, repetitive, running, steady, timeless, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, unending, unfailing, unflagging, uninterrupted, unvarying, aeonian, around-the-clock, dateless, oft-repeated, persisting, staying, unremitting, unwaning |
| Antonyms: | broken, halting, inconstant, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, occasional, temporary, ceasing, checked |
| Main Entry: | continuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | constant, unending |
| Synonyms: | connected, consecutive, endless, everlasting, extended, interminable, perpetual, prolonged, regular, repeated, stable, steady, timeless, unbroken, unceasing, undivided, unfaltering, uninterrupted, continued, day and night, for ever and ever, looped, no end of, no end to, on a treadmill |
| Antonyms: | completed, discontinuous, ending, finished, halting, intermittent, interrupted, sporadic, stopping, ceasing |
| Main Entry: | customary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | SOP*, accepted, according to Hoyle*, accustomed, acknowledged, by the numbers*, chronic, common, confirmed, conventional, established, everyday, familiar, fashionable, frequent, general, habitual, household, normal, ordinary, orthodox, popular, prescriptive, recognized, regular, regulation, routine, standard, standard operating procedure*, traditional, understood, universal, wonted, in a rut, in the groove, playing it safe, same old, stipulated |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, irregular, occasional, rare, sometime, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cyclical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening at regular intervals |
| Synonyms: | circular, periodic, recurrent, regular, repeated, repetitive, patterned, recurring, seasonal |
| Main Entry: | daily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | occurring every day; during the day |
| Synonyms: | common, commonplace, constantly, day after day, everyday, often, ordinary, per diem, periodic, quotidian, regular, regularly, routine, circadian, cyclic, day by day, day-to-day, diurnal, from day to day, once a day, once daily |
| Antonyms: | nightly, nocturnal, at night |
| Main Entry: | equable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | steady, calm |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, composed, consistent, constant, even, even-tempered, imperturbable, level-headed, methodical, orderly, placid, regular, serene, smooth, stable, systematic, temperate, tranquil, unchanging, unflappable, uniform, unruffled, unvarying, easy-going, stabile, unexcitable, unfluctuating |
| Antonyms: | changeable, excitable, irregular, spasmodic, vacillating, variable, varying, wavering, fluctuating |
| Main Entry: | gradual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening slowly, evenly |
| Synonyms: | by degrees, continuous, creeping, even, gentle, graduate, moderate, piecemeal, progressive, regular, slow, steady, successive, unhurried, bit-by-bit, step-by-step |
| Antonyms: | abrupt, infrequent, intermittent, sudden, uneven |
| Main Entry: | habitual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, addicted, automatic, chronic, common, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, customary, familiar, fixed, frequent, hardened, ingrained, inveterate, mechanical, methodical, natural, normal, ordinary, perfunctory, permanent, perpetual, persistent, practiced, recurrent, regular, repeated, repetitious, rooted, routine, seasoned, set, standard, steady, systematic, traditional, wonted, addicting, cyclic, disciplined, iterated, iterative, reiterative |
| Antonyms: | infrequent, intermittent, occasional, rare, seldom, uncommon, unusual, inhabitual, unestablished |
| Main Entry: | horizontal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying flat |
| Synonyms: | even, flush, level, parallel, plane, recumbent, regular, smooth, straight, uniform, accumbent, aligned |
| Antonyms: | upright, vertical |
| Main Entry: | innate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inherited, native |
| Synonyms: | congenital, constitutional, deep-seated, elemental, essential, hereditary, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrained, inherent, instinctive, intrinsic, intuitive, natural, normal, regular, standard, typical, connate, connatural, unacquired |
| Antonyms: | acquired, extrinsic, learned |
| Main Entry: | instinctive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reflex, automatic |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, by seat of one's pants, congenital, habitual, impulsive, inborn, ingrained, inherent, innate, instinctual, intrinsic, intuitional, intuitive, involuntary, knee-jerk*, mechanical, native, natural, normal, regular, rooted, second-nature, spontaneous, typical, unlearned, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unprompted, unthinking, visceral |
| Antonyms: | conscious, deliberate, meditated, reasonable, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invariable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not changing |
| Synonyms: | changeless, consistent, constant, fixed, immovable, immutable, inflexible, monotonous, perpetual, regular, rigid, same, set, static, unalterable, unchangeable, unchanging, unfailing, uniform, unvarying, unwavering, inalterable, undiversified, unmodifiable, unrelieved |
| Antonyms: | changeable, changing, variable, varying |
| Main Entry: | judicial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | legal |
| Synonyms: | administrative, authoritative, constitutional, discriminating, distinguished, equitable, forensic, impartial, judiciary, lawful, magisterial, official, pontifical, regular, statutory, judgelike, juridical, jurisdictional, juristic, legalistic, principled |
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