NONCE Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

nonce

adjective

Definition of nonce

as in infrequent

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Recent Examples of nonce After using a brute-force attack methodology, which allowed the entire search space to be covered in about an hour, Aryal discovered that, for some users at least, the nonce code would be displayed right there on the notification itself. — Davey Winder, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024

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The shooting took place in a country with far stronger gun laws compared to the US and where mass shootings are infrequent.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 12 July 2026
Less social cohesion A decade ago, crime was infrequent and petty.

— Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 9 July 2026

Definition of infrequent

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Lean beef burgers, pulled chicken and the occasional hot dog also fit the plan.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 14, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
Under rural Spanish skies, particularly in dark-sky regions away from towns and cities, observers could see 30 to 50 meteors per hour, with occasional bursts producing even more.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 14 July 2026

Definition of occasional

Adjective

Solar energy is naturally intermittent, meaning production peaks in the middle of the day when electricity demand is often relatively low, only to drop off in the evening just as families return home and usage spikes.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
At the time, logic dictated the culprit to be malaria because the couple had shown symptoms of the illness, including a telltale intermittent fever.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 15 July 2026

Definition of intermittent

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Each one grew up in a home that required her to curry favor with volatile and inconstant parents—a menacing father figure, a recessive and enabling mother—and each found a fragile safety in her caretakers’ occasional good will.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
The self is a shifting, inconstant phenomenon, brain and body ever transforming in time and space, with no clear delineation between what is self and what is other.

— Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025

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