Sporadic synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
Not frequent; not happening frequently.
Intended for use as the occasion requires:
(Rhetoric) Having a structure characterized by periodic sentences.
continuous (antonym)
Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.
Strange; remarkable; extraordinary
irregular (related)
(Grammar) Departing from the usual pattern of inflection, derivation, or word formation, as the present forms of the verb be or the plural noun children.
Not thinking clearly or in an organized fashion; unfocused.
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dependable (antonym)
Trustworthy.
The definition of desultory is something, someone or a conversation with no plan or purpose that wanders from one thing to the next.
The definition of intermittent is something that starts and stops or happens irregularly.
Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
Excellent; extraordinary:
Dissimilar from all others; distinct or individual:
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Consisting of one part, aspect, or section:
constant (antonym)
Continually occurring; persistent:
frequent (antonym)
Occurring or appearing quite often or at close intervals:
regular (antonym)
(Botany) Having symmetrically arranged parts of similar size and shape:
Published at regular intervals, as weekly, monthly, etc.
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on-again
Happening or appearing now and then
off-again
Happening or appearing now and then
Not common; rarely seen
Not usual, common, or ordinary.
few-and-far-between
continue (related)
Happening or appearing now and then
usual (related)
Most commonly occurring
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continual (antonym)
Not interrupted; steady:
localise (related)
patchy (related)
Find another word for sporadic. In this page you can discover 31 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sporadic, like: infrequent, occasional, periodic, continuous, uncommon, irregular, scattered, dependable, desultory, intermittent and isolated.