Sporadic

Adjective

 * 1) Rare and scattered in occurrence.
 * 2) Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.

Derived terms

 * sporadic E layer

Related terms

 * sporadical
 * sporadically
 * sporadicalness

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

Pronunciation

 * spəˈrædɾɪk

Translations

 * Amharic: አልፎ አልፎ (alfo alfo)፥ አንዳንዴ (andande) ፥ በተለያየ ጊዜ
 * Chinese: wúcháng, sànluàn , 偶爾發生的
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: sporadique
 * German:


 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: 散発的な (sanpatsuteki na)
 * Portuguese: esporádico
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: sporadisk


 * Finnish:, ,

Anagrams

 * carpoids
 * picadors