intermittently

English

Etymology

intermittent +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.təˈmɪt.ənt.lɪ/

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Adverb

intermittently (not comparable)

1. Stopping or starting at intervals.
   • 2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera‎^[1]:

     The Hariri-Aoun agreement has shown that Hezbollah can bring the national political system to a halt. This happened in the past several years, and it worsened conditions in sectors such as foreign debt, electricity output, rubbish collection, water delivery, and other essential services, to the discomfort of the majority of Lebanese who have spoken out intermittently against the oligarchy of sectarian leaders who rule the country.

Synonyms

• flakily, sporadically, unreliably; see also Thesaurus:discontinuously

Related terms

• intermittent
• intermittence

Translations

Stopping or starting at intervals

• Catalan: intermitentment
• Dutch: met onderbrekingen, met tussenpozen, af en aan
• Finnish: ajoittaisesti, ajoittain (fi), aika ajoin (fi), katkonaisesti (fi)
• French: intermittemment (fr), par intermittence (fr)
• Galician: intermitentemente
• Georgian: დროგამოშვებით (drogamošvebit), დროდადრო (drodadro), შენაცვლებით (šenacvlebit), წყვეტილად (c̣q̇veṭilad)
• German: absatzweise
• Italian: intermittentemente (it)
• Polish: sporadycznie (pl) m, nieregularnie (pl) m
• Portuguese: intermitentemente (pt)
• Russian: периоди́чески (ru) (periodíčeski), с перерывами (s pereryvami), вре́мя от вре́мени (ru) (vrémja ot vrémeni), толчками (tolčkami), скачками (ru) (skačkami), скачкообразно (ru) (skačkoobrazno), пульсируя (ru) (pulʹsiruja)
• Spanish: intermitentemente