Having the quality of being irregular or not following standard rules, particularly in grammar or structure.
From heteroclite with the adjectival suffix -ic, maintaining the Greek roots hetero- (different) and -klite (declining irregularly).
This word is the adjective form that grammarians use to label anything that's a rebel against standard rules—it applies to everything from irregular verbs to unusual sentence structures that somehow work beautifully.
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