Thesaurus / intermittent
other words for intermittent
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- fitful
- infrequent
- occasional
- periodic
- recurrent
- recurring
- seasonal
- alternate
- arrested
- broken
- by bits and pieces
- checked
- cyclic
- cyclical
- discontinuing
- discontinuous
- epochal
- every other
- here and there
- hit-or-miss
- interrupted
- isochronal
- isochronous
- iterant
- iterative
- metrical
- now and then
- on and off
- periodical
- punctuated
- rhythmic
- rhythmical
- serial
- shifting
- spasmodic
- stop-and-go
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Some additional accumulation of mostly sleet and freezing rain are possible into the first half of Friday, but may be more intermittent and generally not as heavy.
SNOW AND ICE TO MAKE TRAVEL HAZARDOUS IN D.C. AREA ON THURSDAYJASON SAMENOW, WES JUNKERFEBRUARY 18, 2021WASHINGTON POST
After midnight, much of the area should see intermittent snow, which could remain mixed with sleet and rain to the south of the Beltway.
SNOW AND WINTRY MIX CONTINUE OVERNIGHT, ESPECIALLY NORTH OF DISTRICTJASON SAMENOW, WES JUNKER, ANDREW FREEDMANFEBRUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POST
They will mainly have to hope for the best as they receive intermittent updates.
THE UAE’S HOPE PROBE IS ABOUT TO ARRIVE AT MARS IN A HISTORIC FIRSTNEEL PATELFEBRUARY 9, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
In other words, we cannot rule out some intermittent snow or snow showers tomorrow.
AFTER 2 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW, AN ICY NIGHT AHEAD IN D.C. AREA. SNOW SHOWERS POSSIBLE MONDAY.JASON SAMENOW, DAN STILLMAN, ANDREW FREEDMANFEBRUARY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The brazen roar of the cannon is mingled with the intermittent rattle of innumerable machine guns.
After ten days of intermittent suffering, during which the valet had felt no apprehension, he had died suddenly.
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Day after day they rode through caons and winding intermittent gullies, shallow basins, and dry washes.
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About five minutes afterwards, in some intermittent flash of reason, he found he had got hold of something.
When Dr. Smith arrived, he found him suffering from an attack of intermittent fever, and hastened to render aid.
ROBERT MOFFATDAVID J. DEANE
I put this very tamely, being on the whole a quiet elderly man; but it is a strong passion with me, though intermittent.
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WORDS RELATED TO INTERMITTENT
- a good many
- commonplace
- constant
- continual
- customary
- everyday
- expected
- familiar
- general
- habitual
- incessant
- intermittent
- manifold
- many
- monotonous
- numberless
- numerous
- periodic
- perpetual
- persistent
- pleonastic
- profuse
- recurrent
- recurring
- redundant
- reiterated
- reiterative
- successive
- thick
- ubiquitous
- usual
- various
- aberrant
- aimless
- capricious
- casual
- changeable
- designless
- desultory
- disconnected
- discontinuous
- eccentric
- erratic
- faltering
- fitful
- fluctuating
- fragmentary
- haphazard
- hit-or-miss
- inconstant
- indiscriminate
- infrequent
- intermittent
- jerky
- nonuniform
- occasional
- out of order
- patchy
- purposeless
- recurrent
- shaky
- shifting
- spasmodic
- sporadic
- uncertain
- unconsidered
- uneven
- unmethodical
- unpunctual
- unreliable
- unsettled
- unsteady
- unsystematic
- up and down
- weaving
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