Usually means: Periodically stopping and starting again.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions History Colors (New!)
We found 21 dictionaries that define the word intermittently:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. intermittently: Merriam-Webster
  2. intermittently: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intermittently: Collins English Dictionary
  4. intermittently: Vocabulary.com
  5. Intermittently, intermittently: Wordnik
  6. intermittently: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. intermittently: Wiktionary
  8. Intermittently, intermittently: Dictionary.com
  9. intermittently: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Intermittently: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. intermittently: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. intermittently: Rhymezone
  13. Intermittently: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. intermittently: FreeDictionary.org
  15. intermittently: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. intermittently: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intermittently: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. intermittently: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. intermittently: Medical dictionary

(Note: See intermittent as well.)

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky
Definitions from Wiktionary (intermittently)

▸ adverb:  Stopping or starting at intervals.

Similar:
intermittedly, intermittingly, periodically, unintermittently, interruptedly, on and off, intervally, sporadically, every so often, interruptingly, more...

Opposite:
continuously

Types:
on and off, stop and start, sporadic, erratic, inconsistent, irregular, more...

Phrases:
intermittently stopping and starting, appearing intermittently, sleep intermittently, more...

Colors:
    gray,     silver,     black,     white,     charcoal, more...

▸ Words similar to intermittently

▸ Usage examples for intermittently

▸ Idioms related to intermittently

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Words that often appear near intermittently

▸ Rhymes of intermittently

▸ Invented words related to intermittently

Similar:
intermittedly, intermittingly, periodically, unintermittently, interruptedly, on and off, intervally, sporadically, every so often, interruptingly, more...

Opposite:
continuously

Types:
on and off, stop and start, sporadic, erratic, inconsistent, irregular, more...

Phrases:
intermittently stopping and starting, appearing intermittently, sleep intermittently, more...

Colors:
    gray,     silver,     black,     white,     charcoal, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.


(Click a button above to see words related to "intermittently" that fit the given meter.)



Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Easter egg acrostics