intermittent
adjective/ˌɪntəˈmɪtənt/
/ˌɪntərˈmɪtənt/
- stopping and starting often over a period of time, but not regularly synonym sporadic
- intermittent bursts of applause
- intermittent showers
Extra ExamplesTopics Working lifec2- A day of intermittent rainstorms followed.
- The workers had been employed on an intermittent basis for many years.
- There had been twenty years of intermittent warfare.
- They came under intermittent shellfire.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIntermittent is used with these nouns:- diarrhoea
- pain
- rain
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin intermittent- ‘ceasing’, from the verb intermittere, from inter- ‘between’ + mittere ‘let go’.Want to learn more?
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