SEASONAL Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

seasonal

adjective

Definition of seasonal

as in rhythmic

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Recent Examples of seasonal Some businesses may be looking for seasonal workers or seasonal employees. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 For example, a local retailer can combine sales history, seasonal trends and inventory data to identify which products to reorder and which are tying up cash. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The menu will also feature light bites from The Goodyear House’s seasonal menu. — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026 The seasonal decor’s themes and colors are developed with Walt Disney Imagineering and the Enhancement team. — Carole Horst, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seasonal

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Adjective

Swimming also reduces stress as rhythmic breathing and movement trigger the release of brain chemicals such as endorphins and dopamine, which produce a sense of euphoria and well-being.

— Michael McColly, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
Sure, rhythmic, pattering rain can help regulate your nervous system, and trigger your autonomous sensory meridian response, but me?

— Erita Chen, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of rhythmic

Adjective

For leaders running businesses in cyclical industries, the job isn't to predict where the cycle goes next or to protect your team from uncomfortable market realities.

— Malte Kramer, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
But this whole data center move has created a gold rush that will turn many companies into winners that had previously been cyclical nightmares.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of cyclic

Adjective

While the haunting serial murders are the mainstay within the show, Kay also smartly addresses resentments in the police department between patrol cops and detectives and even officers who turn on each other.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Aug. 2026
The stories of two high schoolers, Jules and Quinn, entwine on May 1, the day a serial killer attacks one of them.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of serial

Adjective

Real-time tracking cuts costly checks Nuclear facilities currently rely on a combination of instruments, physical security measures, manual sampling and periodic shutdowns to determine how much nuclear material is present and where it is located.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
While Western intelligence agencies have debated periodic reports of Iranian scientists attending North Korean nuclear tests, Pyongyang’s willingness to proliferate nuclear infrastructure elsewhere is beyond doubt.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of periodic

Adjective

His new marrow engrafted quickly, and aside from some recurrent adenovirus, his recovery went remarkably well.

— Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of recurrent

Adjective

In Iraq, the United States inflicted a dozen years of punishing sanctions, intermittent bombing, and failed regime change and counterproliferation efforts, followed by the disastrous 2003 invasion and occupation, all at tremendous human cost.

— MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Then came even more emotion, with intermittent pauses to cry.

— Cam Inman, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of intermittent

Adjective

Before the game, White defended herself after she was criticized for her response to DiJonai Carrington’s flagrant foul on Cunningham, and pleaded with people to focus on the sport and not the continual sideshows.

— Chantz Martin OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
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

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