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sporadic
Synonyms and Antonyms of sporadic
- Sporadic loud noises kept startling everyone.
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
- So long as the complaints remain sporadic, we're doing fine.
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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