intermittent

About 4.91 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

   The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.

2. adjective Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.

   The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.

3. noun An intermittent fever or disease.

Similar words

sporadic periodic periodical discontinuous temporary occasional separate casual disjunct episodic

Often followed by

fever and claudication or positive fevers reinforcement catheterization porphyria

Word family

intermittently