now and then

Adverb

Meaning

sporadically and infrequently

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

occasionally from time to time at times on occasion once in a while now and again often once sometimes rarely occasional hardly seldom periodically sometime
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Antonyms

often generally mostly commonly frequently mainly
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Examples

I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay. Isaac Newton

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. W. Somerset Maugham

Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then. Hindi Proverb

Leave her now and then if you would really love your wife. Malawi Proverb

Life is like a lamp flame; it needs a little oil now and then. Asian-indian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

now now a days now and again now back to our regularly scheduled program now bygone now for