Sporadically

adv

adv ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    At an occasional, infrequent, or irregular frequency. not-comparable

    "Valencia threatened sporadically in the first half with Miguel having a decent effort deflected wide by Ashley Cole, while Jordi Alba's near-post cross was flicked into the sidenetting by Pablo Hernandez."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a sporadic manner wordnet

Synonyms

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intermittentlyat haphazardat intervalsat irregular intervalsat largeat random

Example

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"Does the error occur regularly or sporadically? Is the error reproducible?"

Etymology

From sporadic + -ally.

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