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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breakdown, failure |
| Synonyms: | bug*, defect, fault, flaw, glitch*, gremlin, impairment, slip |
| Antonyms: | perfection, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | glitch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | error |
| Synonyms: | bug*, defect, flaw, hitch, malfunction, misfire, mishap, problem, setback, snafu, snag, something wrong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| 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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