SEASONAL Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

seasonal

adjective

Definition of seasonal

as in rhythmic

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Recent Examples of seasonal Start prepping your home for autumn with cozy and seasonal finds from Pottery Barn’s expansive sale section. — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026 Historically, gateway businesses faced risks that were comparatively familiar and cyclical and tied to standard seasonal tourist traffic and traditional market challenges. — Nancy Forster-Holt, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2026 Mea Culpa will have a seasonal menu of drinks, according to their website. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Aug. 2026 How local produce saves you money Prices tell the seasonal story clearly. — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seasonal

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Adjective

Andrés Tambornino’s rhythmic editing pulls together the disparate kinds of stock and material, helping to create a strong sense of forward momentum throughout.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2026
The resulting sound combines disco and psychedelic funk with Turkish melodies, rhythmic patterns and lyrics.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of rhythmic

Adjective

Even the more routine setbacks, such as the nine-month cyclical bear market of 2022, take an investor back in time.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
These engineering advancements demonstrate that the memory bottleneck is a design choice, poised to disrupt current memory market valuations and reinforce the semiconductor industry's cyclical nature.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of cyclic

Adjective

Binface, a serial candidate who has challenged prime ministers past and present, became the default challenger in a field of 34 candidates after the major parties boycotted the campaign as a political stunt by Farage.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Liz Meriwether sorta, kinda uses the 1987 thriller Black Widow — in which a government agent (Debra Winger) hunts a female serial killer (Theresa Russell) — as a starting point for a series that doesn’t even bear that title anymore.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of serial

Adjective

This meteor shower is known for being plentiful and is part of the debris stream of the periodic comet Swift-Tuttle, which takes 133 years to orbit the Sun.

— Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
After methodically growing its business over nearly three decades and doing periodic tuck-in acquisitions, Lionsgate has assembled 20,000 film and TV titles in its library, which topped $1 billion in revenue in the most recent fiscal year.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of periodic

Adjective

Joan Baez, yet another famous fan, emerges as one of the diary’s recurrent characters, and a kind of guiding spirit for this metamorphosis.

— Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2026
People with recurrent kidney stones or kidney disease should be more cautious, especially with strong black tea, and follow their healthcare provider’s advice on fluids, sodium, calcium, and diet.

— MD Published, Verywell Health, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of recurrent

Adjective

Construction vehicles beeped and chugged, and the intermittent buzz of saws mixed with the clang of heavy equipment.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026
Last Friday, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ published their most recent shortage update list naming the brands of estradiol patches on back order, intermittent back order, as well as those that are currently available.

— Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of intermittent

Adjective

Geomorphologists, who specialize in the shape (and continual reshaping) of Earth’s surface, have studied the geometry of river networks far longer, since the late 1800s.

— Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2026
Rather than waiting for stability to return, many organizations are redesigning operations around the expectation of continual disruption.

— Josh Dunham, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of continual

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