sporadic
adjective/spəˈrædɪk/
/spəˈrædɪk/
- happening only occasionally or at intervals that are not regular synonym intermittent
- sporadic fighting/gunfire/violence
- sporadic outbreaks of the disease
Extra Examples- Sporadic fighting continued through the next day.
- Sporadic gunfire was reported each night.
- The findings are derived from sporadic and statistically unreliable surveys.
- There are sporadic outbreaks of violence.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySporadic is used with these nouns:- fighting
- gunfire
- outbreak
- …
Word Originlate 17th cent.: via medieval Latin from Greek sporadikos, from sporas, sporad- ‘scattered’; related to speirein ‘to sow’.Definitions on the go
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