intermittent
stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.
alternately functioning and not functioning or alternately functioning properly and improperly.
(of streams, lakes, or springs) recurrent; showing water only part of the time.
Origin of intermittent
1Other words for intermittent
Other words from intermittent
- in·ter·mit·tence, in·ter·mit·ten·cy, noun
- in·ter·mit·tent·ly, adverb
- non·in·ter·mit·tence, noun
- non·in·ter·mit·tent, adjective
- non·in·ter·mit·tent·ness, noun
- un·in·ter·mit·tent, adjective
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How to use intermittent in a sentence
From everywhere the report came that agitation was unintermittent, and being carried on with zeal and success.
Violence and the Labor Movement | Robert HunterThey are like her in her suffering and her weakness; they should be like her too in her unintermittent, persevering cry.
The Parables of Our Lord | William ArnotEven the screech of the crickets was so unintermittent as to form part of the prevailing stillness.
In the Whirl of the Rising | Bertram MitfordWithin Siena itself the harmony was by no means unintermittent.
The Story of Siena and San Gimignano | Edmund G. GardnerNo misgivings troubled him; his smile was as an unintermittent summer noonday.
Hawthorne and His Circle | Julian Hawthorne
British Dictionary definitions for intermittent
/ (ˌɪntəˈmɪtənt) /
occurring occasionally or at regular or irregular intervals; periodic
Derived forms of intermittent
- intermittence or intermittency, noun
- intermittently, adverb
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