The fluorescent light was faulty and flickered on and off intermittently.
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Intermittently
/ɪn.tərˈmɪt.ənt.lɪ/
Synonyms for "intermittently" (69 found)
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Closest matches (14)
at intervalsat irregular intervalsat randomat regular intervalsat stated timesbrokenlyby catchesby fitsby jerksby skipsby snatchescapriciouslyconstantly
Noun(1 words)
de vez em quando
Strong matches (21)
desultorilydisconnectedlydiscontinuouslyeccentricallyerraticallyevery so oftenfitfullyhaltinglyhaphazardlyhere and therein snatchesin spotsinconstantlyinfrequentlyirregularlyjerkilylike clockworklurchinglymethodically
Adverb(2 words)
Related words (34)
nonuniformlyoccasionallyoff and onpatchilyper saltumpiecemealpunctuallyrandomlyregularlyroughlyskippinglyspasmodicallysporadicallyspottilysteadilysystematicallyuncertainlyunevenlyuniformlyunmethodically
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Adverb(5 words)
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More general
2 entriesadverb of timetemporal adverb
More specific
2 entriesepisodic occurrencesporadic event
Collocations
6 entriesintermittent connectivityintermittent failureintermittent faultintermittent observationintermittent patternintermittent signal
Inflections
2 entriesmore intermittentlymost intermittently
Derivations
3 entriesSample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Sami was checking his phone intermittently.
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Filby became pensive. “Clearly,” the Time Traveller proceeded, “any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and—Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.”
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It was snowing intermittently.
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