What is another word for intermittently?

Pronunciation: [ˌɪntəmˈɪtəntli] (IPA)

Intermittently is a word that describes something occurring at irregular intervals or not continuously. There are various synonyms for intermittently that can be used interchangeably in sentences such as sporadic, irregular, on and off, periodic, fitfully, infrequently, and occasionally. The word sporadic emphasizes the unpredictable nature of something occurring from time to time, while "irregular" suggests when something is not following a set pattern. On and off refers to something haltingly happening, while fitfully suggests something that is inconsistent or unstable. In contrast, periodic refers to something happening regularly but with long intervals between, and "occasionally" implies a low frequency of something happening. Choosing the right synonym for intermittently depends on the context in which the word is being used.

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What are the opposite words for intermittently?

Intermittently means occurring at irregular intervals or not steadily. Antonyms of intermittently include regularly, constantly, continuously, uniformly, steadily, all the time, and consistently. When something happens regularly, it occurs frequently and with consistent timing. Constantly means something is continuous with no breaks or pauses. Uniformly implies a consistent or predictable pattern. The opposite of intermittently, steadily means without interruption and with consistency. Something that occurs all the time happens continuously, and consistently means happening in the same way over time. Overall, antonyms of intermittently all imply something happening consistently without breaks, whereas intermittently implies irregularity or inconsistency.

Usage examples for Intermittently

It came seemingly from everywhere, intermittently, in successive crying spells.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
I knew of old what heaven in those circumstances meant, and I had had no boy to look after, and no woman intermittently infirm.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
He slept intermittently on park benches throughout the day.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills

Famous quotes with Intermittently

  • The evidence of science and history is that humans are only ever partly and intermittently rational, but for modern humanists the solution is simple: human beings must in future be more reasonable. These enthusiasts for reason have not noticed that the idea that humans may one day be more rational requires a greater leap of faith than anything in religion. Since it requires a miraculous breach in the order of things, the idea that Jesus returned from the dead is not as contrary to reason as the notion that human beings will in future be different from how they have always been.
    John Gray (philosopher)
  • My dad, Ron Brand, was an entrepreneurial Essex man, Del Boy’d up to the hilt on Thatcher’s creed. He was a self-made and self-destructive man and intermittently tumbled either side of the line. The prevailing mentality of the time, the eighties, was “every man for himself.” Unions were crushed, state interests were carved up and flogged, and council houses were sold back to the people whose efforts had built them. One of the great venture-capitalist heroes of this time, who epitomized this buccaneering spirit, was Sir James Goldsmith, Tory hero, Thatcher crush, scourge of Private Eye, and demon of the left. My dad and a lot of people from modest backgrounds admired him; there was something appealingly antiestablishment and daring in the aggressive and ingenious ways that James Goldsmith exploited the system.
    Russell Brand
  • [Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flag and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably true of Stalin’s militarised version of Socialism. All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them "I offer you struggle, danger and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.
    George Orwell

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