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sporadic
Synonyms and Antonyms of sporadic
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lacking in steadiness or regularity of occurrence
aperiodic, casual, catchy, choppy, discontinuous, episodic (also episodical), erratic, fitful, intermittent, irregular, occasional, spasmodic, spastic, spotty, unsteady
broken, disconnected, fragmentary, interrupted
aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, odd, random, scattered, slapdash, stray
capricious, changeful, changing, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, varying, wavering
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not often occurring or repeated
few and far between
Synonym Discussion of sporadic
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- infrequent family visits
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- smallpox is now uncommon in many countries
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- jobs were scarce during the Depression
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- rare first editions
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- sporadic cases of influenza
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