intermittently
Now and then
Intermittently means at irregular intervals, stopping and starting rather than continuing steadily.
Rain falling intermittently comes and goes throughout the day.
A machine working intermittently functions only sometimes, often suggesting a fault.
The signal cut out intermittently.
She checked her phone intermittently during the meeting.
At infrequent intervals
- sometimesAt irregular intervals
- periodicallyAt recurring intervals
- infrequentlyNot happening often
- irregularlyNot following a pattern
sporadically · now and then · on and off · at times · from time to time · once in a while · here and there · scattered
At recurring intervals
- recurrentlyOccurring multiple times
- alternatelyTaking turns successively
- rhythmicallyWith measured, regular timing
- pulsingBeating with rhythm
oscillating · ebbing and flowing · waxing and waning · sequentially
Without foreseeable pattern
- inconsistentlyIn an unreliable manner
- variablyIn differing amounts
- randomlyWithout deliberate selection
- unevenlyIn irregular manner
unreliably · capriciously · erratically · chaotically · haphazardly · fitfully · unsystematically · desultorily
occasionally
At infrequent intervals
- sometimesAt irregular intervals
- periodicallyAt recurring intervals
- infrequentlyNot happening often
irregularly · sporadically · now and then · on and off · at times · from time to time · once in a while · here and there · scattered · patchily
periodically
At recurring intervals
- recurrentlyOccurring multiple times
- alternatelyTaking turns successively
- rhythmicallyWith measured, regular timing
pulsing · oscillating · ebbing and flowing · waxing and waning · sequentially
unpredictably
Without foreseeable pattern
- inconsistentlyIn an unreliable manner
- variablyIn differing amounts
- randomlyWithout deliberate selection
unevenly · unreliably · capriciously · erratically · chaotically · haphazardly · fitfully · unsystematically · desultorily · changeably
- time wordsminute, hour, day, now, soon
- adverbsquickly, slowly, very, really, now
- frequency wordsalways, never, often, sometimes, usually
- infrequencyrarely, seldom, infrequent, infrequently, occasionally
- Temporarilybriefly, temporarily, for now, meanwhile, for the time being
intermittentlyconstantly
At all times
continuously · continually · perpetually · incessantly · ceaselessly
intermittentlyalways
At all times
forever · permanently · eternally · indefinitely · in perpetuity
intermittentlyregularly
At fixed intervals
consistently · steadily · uniformly · reliably · predictably
- intermittent fastingScheduled cycles of eating and abstaining
- intermittent rainPrecipitation with pauses between
- intermittent fastCycled eating and abstinence