intermittently

Adverb

Meaning

With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sporadically sometimes occasionally periodically irregularly infrequently piecemeal chaotically from time to time intermittent unevenly haphazardly variably eccentrically at times
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Antonyms

ever generally frequently mostly always commonly
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Related terms

intermittence intermittent

Examples

intermittently we questioned the barometer Source: Internet

2001 census recorded 1.66 million permanent housing units, including 196 thousand intermittently occupied and 42 thousand abandoned ones. Source: Internet

A golden age in Chinese history, the Han dynasty's long period of stability and prosperity consolidated the foundation of China as a unified state under a central imperial bureaucracy, which was to last intermittently for most of the next two millennium. Source: Internet

After the Second World War, in 1959, archaeological work was started again and has continued intermittently ever since. Source: Internet

Currently it appears that the snow will have a "banded structure" with localized areas intermittently receiving snow that may fall hard enough to accumulate a couple of inches over the relatively short period of time. Source: Internet

Although the band took a break from group activities in 1976 and again in 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and toured together intermittently between that time and their break-up in 2011. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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