Sporadic
[spə'rædɪk]
Definition
(adj.) recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; 'a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids' .
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Definition
(a.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Scattered, occurring here and there.
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Definition
adj. scattered—a term specially applied to any disease usually epidemic or contagious when it attacks only a few persons in a district and does not spread in its ordinary manner.—adv. Sporad′ically.—n. Sporad′icalness.
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Examples
- But as men, personalities, they were just accidents, sporadic little unimportant phenomena. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Eventually, in the year 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Whereas without him, as you see, she is a mere stray, a fluffy sporadic bit of chaos. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was absolutely no art, but there had been a number of sporadic and very interesting experiments made. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Aside from sporadic instances, like the height of Greek thought, it is a comparatively modern manifestation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In those sporadic instances where such is not the case, it is due to two causes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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