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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective sporadic has 1 sense

• sporadic(a = adj.all) Array - recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"
Antonym: continual

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THESAURUS

sporadic

aimless, amorphous, broadcast, broken, capricious, careening, casual, catching, catchy, chance, changeable, changing, choppy, communicable, contagious, desultory, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, diffuse, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, dispread, disproportionate, disseminated, dissipated, distributed, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, eccentric, endemic, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, erose, erratic, few, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, guttering, halting, haphazard, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hit-or-miss, immethodical, impulsive, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indiscriminate, infectious, infective, inoculable, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jagged, jerky, lurching, meaningless, mercurial, misshapen, motley, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, occasional, on-again-off-again, orderless, pandemic, patchy, periodical, pestiferous, pestilential, planless, pluralistic, promiscuous, ragged, rambling, random, rare, rough, scarce, scattered, scrappy, seldom, senseless, separate, shapeless, single, snatchy, sparse, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spasmodical, spastic, spotty, spread, spreading, staggering, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, systemless, taking, unarranged, uncertain, unclassified, uncommon, undirected, unequable, unequal, uneven, unexpected, unfrequent, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unordered, unorganized, unorthodox, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsorted, unstable, unsteady, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, wandering, wavering, widespread, wobbling, wobbly, zymotic

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sporadic

Dispersion

N nonassemblage, dispersion, dispersion, disjunction, divergence, aspersion, scattering, dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution, apportionment, spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction, affusion, waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra waveson, unassembled &c (assemble), dispersed, sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread, epidemic, adrift, stray, disheveled, streaming, sparsim, here and there, passim.

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