'Sporadic' definitions:
Definition of 'sporadic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids" [ant: continual]
Definition of 'Sporadic'
From: GCIDE
- Sporadic \Spo*rad"ic\ (-r[a^]d"[i^]k), a. [Gr. ? scattered, fr. ?, ?, scattered, fr. ? to sow seed, to scatter like seed: cf. F. sporadique. See Spore.] Occurring 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. [1913 Webster]
- Sporadic disease (Med.), a disease which occurs in single and scattered cases. See the Note under Endemic, a. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sporadic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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