intermittently
15
6.0
- adverb
- /ˌɪntərˈmɪtəntli/
:
intermitentemente
- During the lecture, the microphone failed intermittently, making it hard for students to hear the professor.
- only intermittently
- operate intermittently
- continued intermittently
They've been on the bench intermittently since October.
- They've been on the bench intermittently since October.
- But what is the, what are the facts around fasting intermittently?
- If you're stopping off intermittently and getting meal deals, why is it a meal deal?
- They occur slowly or intermittently, and on global scales they can be obscured by normal fluctuations in things like temperature and rainfall.
- She was also She also suffered intermittently from exhaustion and malnutrition.
- Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, you have intermittently really liked my next guest.
- And the idea is that borderline split intermittently split between psychotic and neurotic.
- I don't know is that's what influencers say, but but you do it intermittently.
- I'm fasting intermittently when you you're skipping dinner for for for health reasons, I think.
Examples
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The pressure is applied intermittently between bleedings to preserve the animal's blood in its own body and ensure the freshness of samples.
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I raised my camera and saw the rest intermittently through the viewfinder.
Academic text (2001) -
There is a site not far from here which I have worked intermittently as my interest allows.
Fiction book (1992) -
I became involved in an investigation that I pursued intermittently for thirty years.
Academic text (1997) -
Instead, the seasons seemed confused, intermittently mild and cold, and then mild again.
Fiction book (2002) -
They've been on the bench intermittently since October.
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One young woman described spending several years traveling intermittently with various carnivals.
Academic text (2000) -
Such talks have taken place intermittently since 1906 but fell out of favor under the Harper government.
Academic text (2017) -
We'll sit together and talk it through and turn to you intermittently for help in solving Enron's dilemmas.
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The tip of a budding lime branch flicked intermittently against the window; the wind was rising.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
438
2.0
Happens sometimes but not often
382
1.0
It happens again and again
73
2.0
Happens sometimes but not regularly
41
2.4
Happens sometimes, but not very often
13
6.5
Happening only sometimes and not regularly
13
6.4
In a way that is not regular or easy to predict
5
6.3
In an irregular way with short breaks
4
4.2
Happens at different times and not in a steady way
3
3.8
Happening sometimes and stopping at other times
1
7.5
Happening now and then with gaps between events
1
8.6
Happens at irregular times in short, sudden bursts
1
7.4
Happens at irregular times, starting and stopping
1
4.3
Happens again and again at regular times
Happening at separate times with gaps between them
Antonyms
How Often
740
1.0
476
1.0
∞
1.0
15
6.0
438
2.0
539
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
intermittently = intermittent (transparent) = intermittent + ly
Formed by the regular adverbial suffix '-ly' from the adjective 'intermittent', so the meaning is directly derived.
Etymology
Intermittently comes from the parts inter- 'between' and mittere 'to send', which gave the sense of 'leaving gaps' or 'stopping for a time'. So, intermittently describes something that happens now and then, with pauses, and not all the time.