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/ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/ · adjective
Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span..
The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.
Also bloudletting is good in feuers, whether they be continual or intermittent […]
[…] the Gift of Prophecy […] was in the mind not as an Inhabitant, but as a Guest; that is, by intermittent Returns and Ecstasies, by Occasional Raptures and Revelations; as is clear from what we read of the Prophets in the Old Testament.
[…] Pale through night’s curtain gleam’d By fits the lunar intermittent ray, That quiv’ring serv’d to light his lonely steps
[…] by degrees the talk became as flickering and intermittent as the light of the dying fire, which they were too idle to feed with sticks […]
[…] three scruffy-looking young men with intermittent facial hair and starvation-symptom physiques.
The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.
Use intermittent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Intermittent means Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span..
Common synonyms include periodic, periodical, patchy, spasmodic.
Possible antonyms include steady, constant, continual.
The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
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