This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for sporadic

Adjective

  1. Happening or appearing now and then

    2. See also:

    continue

  2. Rarely occurring or appearing

    3. Idioms:
    See also:

    usual

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for sporadic

Modifier
    2. See also:

    irregular

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • His nobles, whom he tried to cow by sporadic acts of violence, rebelled against him.

  • But the failures were sporadic only.

  • But the failures were sporadic only.

  • On the other hand, German sporadic attacks by sea and air on British watering places and the increasing activity of German submarines gave Mr. Churchill and the Admiralty much concern.

  • Someone beat on the door across the hall loud enough for Bianca to hear over the TV and sporadic thunder.

More sentences →

Words that mention sporadic in the Dictionary

Words near sporadic in the Thesaurus