Definitions for: Sporadic

[adj] recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

Webster (1913) Definition: Spo*rad"ic, a. [Gr. ? scattered, fr. ?, ?, scattered,
fr. ? to sow seed, to scatter like seed: cf. F. sporadique.
See Spore.]
Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind,
or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic
fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a
flower.

Sporadic disease (Med.), a disease which occurs in single
and scattered cases. See the Note under Endemic, a.

Synonyms: fitful, intermittent, irregular, isolated, periodic, scattered, spasmodic, stray, unpredictable

Antonyms: continual

See Also: discontinuous, infrequent, noncontinuous

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