beast vs irregular

beast

noun
  • A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. 

  • Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically. 

  • A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal. 

  • Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. 

  • Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength. 

  • A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. 

  • A sex offender. 

  • Something unpleasant and difficult. 

  • A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one. 

verb
  • to engage in sexual intercourse, particularly in an illicit context 

  • to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment. 

adj
  • great; excellent; powerful 

irregular

noun
  • A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics. 

  • One who does not regularly attend a venue. 

adj
  • without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity 

  • rough 

  • not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal 

  • whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other) 

  • nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations 

  • not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language 

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