My connection has sporadic problems.
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Sporadic
Synonyms for "sporadic" (178 found)
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Strong matches (53)
disseminateddissipateddistributeddivaricatedivergentdiversifieddiversiformeccentricendemicepidemialepidemicepiphytoticepizooticeroseerraticfewfitfulflickeringfluctuatingformless
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frivolousgratuitousgutteringhaltinghaphazardherky-jerkyheteroclitehit-or-missimmethodicalimpulsiveinchoateincoherentinconsistentinconstantindiscriminateinfectiousinfectiveinoculableintermittingirregularisolatedjaggedjerkylurchingmeaninglessmercurialmisshapenmotleymutablenonconformistnonstandardnonsymmetrical
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (89)
nonsystematicnonuniformon-again-off-againorderlesspandemicpatchyperiodicperiodicalpestiferouspestilentialpiecemealplanlesspluralisticpromiscuousraggedramblingrandomrareroughscarce
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scatteredscrappyseldomsenselessseparateshapelesssinglesnatchysparsespasmaticspasmicspasmodicalspasticsporadicalspottyspreadspreadingstaggeringstragglingstragglystraystrewnstrownsystemlesstakingunarrangeduncertainunclassifieduncommonundirectedunequableunequalunevenunexpectedunfrequentungradedunjoinedunmethodicalunmetricalunorderedunorganizedunorthodoxunpredictableunregularunreliableunrhythmicalunsettledunsortedunstableunsteadyunsymmetricalunsystematicununiformvaguevariablevariegatedvariformvariousvaryingveeringwanderingwaveringwidespreadwobblingwobblyzymotic
Adjective(3 words)
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Antonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
2 entriesrelated to
12 entriessimilar
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
51 translations across 30 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σπορᾰδῐκός adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Asturian
1 entries- esporádicu adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Belarusian
1 entries- спарады́чны adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Bengali
1 entries- বিক্ষিপ্ত adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Bulgarian
3 entries- единичен adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- случаен adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- спорадичен adj (exhibiting random behaviour)
Catalan
2 entries- esporàdic adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- esporàdic adj (exhibiting random behaviour)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 偶爾發生的 /偶尔发生的 adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- 哩哩啦啦 adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- 散亂 /散乱 adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- 無常 /无常 adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Czech
2 entries- ojedinělý adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- sporadický adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Danish
1 entries- sporadisk adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Dutch
1 entries- sporadisch adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Finnish
4 entries- hajanainen adj (exhibiting random behaviour)
- harvinainen adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- satunnainen adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- satunnainen adj (exhibiting random behaviour)
French
1 entries- sporadique adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Galician
1 entries- esporádico adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
German
1 entries- sporadisch adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Greek
1 entries- σποραδικός adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Indonesian
1 entries- sporadis adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Italian
1 entries- sporadico adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Japanese
1 entries- 散発的な adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Latin
1 entries- sporadicus adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sporadisk adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Polish
1 entries- sporadyczny adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Portuguese
2 entries- esporádico adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- pontual adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Romanian
1 entries- sporadic adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Russian
3 entries- едини́чный adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- случа́йный adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- споради́ческий adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sporadičan adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- спорадичан adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Spanish
3 entries- esporádico adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- esporádico adj (exhibiting random behaviour)
- guadianesco adj (exhibiting random behaviour)
Swedish
1 entries- sporadisk adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Tagalog
1 entries- manaka-naka adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Turkish
2 entries- ara sıra adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- tek tük adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
Ukrainian
2 entries- споради́чний adj (rare and scattered in occurrence)
- споради́чний adj (exhibiting random behaviour)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Apart from hearing sporadic gunfire, the day was pretty quiet.
Source: tatoeba (2654416)
Sporadic gunfire was heard in the distance.
Source: tatoeba (2807065)
Sami's movements were sporadic.
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