Usually means: Intermittently occurring at irregular intervals.
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  1. off-and-on: Merriam-Webster
  2. off-and-on: Vocabulary.com
  3. off-and-on: Wordnik
  4. off-and-on: Dictionary.com
  5. off-and-on: FreeDictionary.org
  6. off-and-on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. off-and-on: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. off-and-on: Wiktionary

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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of on-and-off [(informal, idiomatic) Vacillating, undecided, intermittent.]

Similar:
broken, fitful, interrupted, on/off, ever-changing, non-stop, undecisive, unconsistent, non-continuous, nonperiodical, more...

Opposite:
consistent, continuous, steady, uninterrupted

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Similar:
broken, fitful, interrupted, on/off, ever-changing, non-stop, undecisive, unconsistent, non-continuous, nonperiodical, more...

Opposite:
consistent, continuous, steady, uninterrupted



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