All intermittent synonyms
in·ter·mit·tent
I i adj intermittent
- fitful — coming, appearing, acting, etc., in fits or by spells; recurring irregularly.
- infrequent — happening or occurring at long intervals or rarely: infrequent visits.
- recurrent — that recurs; occurring or appearing again, especially repeatedly or periodically.
- occasional — occurring or appearing at irregular or infrequent intervals; occurring now and then: an occasional headache.
- periodic — of or derived from a periodic acid.
- seasonal — pertaining to, dependent on, or accompanying the seasons of the year or some particular season; periodical: seasonal work.
- recurring — occurring or appearing again.
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- arrested — to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
- broken — Broken is the past participle of break.
- cyclical — A cyclical process is one in which a series of events happens again and again in the same order.
- discontinuous — not continuous; broken; interrupted; intermittent: a discontinuous chain of mountains; a discontinuous argument.
- hit-or-miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- interrupted — having an irregular or discontinuous arrangement, as of leaflets along a stem.
- on and off — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
- periodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- rhythmic — cadenced; rhythmical.
- serial — anything published, broadcast, etc., in short installments at regular intervals, as a novel appearing in successive issues of a magazine.
- spasmodic — pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms.
- cyclic — Cyclic means the same as cyclical.
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- isochronous — isochronal.
- iterative — repeating; making repetition; repetitious.
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- rhythmical — periodic, as motion, or a drumbeat.
- checked — Something that is checked has a pattern of small squares, usually of two colours.
- here and there — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- iterant — characterized by repetition; repeating.
- stop-and-go — characterized by periodically enforced stops, as caused by heavy traffic or traffic signals: stop-and-go traffic.
adjective intermittent
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- erratic — Not even or regular in pattern or movement; unpredictable.
- irregular — without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
- alternating — happening in succession
- discontinuing — Present participle of discontinue.
- epochal — Forming or characterizing an epoch; epoch-making.
adverb intermittent
- uncertainly — not definitely ascertainable or fixed, as in time of occurrence, number, dimensions, or quality.
- alternately — in an alternating sequence or position
- inconstantly — In an inconstant manner.