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discontinuing
adjective as in intermittent
Strongest matches
adjective as in on-again, off-again
Weak matches
- alternate
- arrested
- broken
- by bits and pieces
- checked
- cyclic
- cyclical
- discontinuous
- epochal
- every other
- fitful
- here and there
- hit-or-miss
- infrequent
- interrupted
- isochronal
- isochronous
- iterant
- iterative
- metrical
- now and then
- occasional
- on and off
- periodic
- periodical
- punctuated
- recurrent
- recurring
- rhythmic
- rhythmical
- seasonal
- serial
- shifting
- spasmodic
- sporadic
- stop-and-go
noun as in suspension
Strong matches
Example Sentences
AOL discontinuing service that allowed people to get movie listings and buy tickets with a call on a phone.
But this past June, as the Wizards pursued their race to the bottom, Leonsis announced he was discontinuing the back and forth.
There is the same reason for discontinuing to obey a bad law as there is for annulling it and substituting for it a better.
The priests made an effort to acquire the control by discontinuing the monarchy.
Without discontinuing his hurried feeding of his smoldering piece, Shelby looked up.
I have been a reader of your paper for some time, but if this sort of thing continues I shall feel very much like discontinuing.
Raper heard the words without even discontinuing to write, and merely muttered a brief "Very well," in reply.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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