inactive vs irregular

inactive

noun
  • A person who does not take action. 

adj
  • Showing no optical activity in polarized light. 

  • Retired from duty or service. 

  • Not engaging in physical activity. 

  • Relatively inert. 

  • Not functioning or operating; broken down 

  • Not active, temporarily or permanently. 

irregular

noun
  • One who does not regularly attend a venue. 

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

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 

How often have the words inactive and irregular occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )