Interrupted by chops or breaks; in fits and starts; not continuous; jerky; abrupt; broken.

Changing in intensity, now strong, now faint; flickering, fitful, intermittent; tremulous, unsteady; tending to fade or become dim.

Interpolated. Interrupted, intermittent.

Liable to be suspended or temporarily stopped; intermittent. Obsolete.

Sometimes off and sometimes on; intermittent, taking place at intervals; vacillating, inconstant, fluctuating; (of a sick person): not noticeably…

That remits or has remissions; remittent.

Of the nature of, pertaining to, intermission; intermittent; coming at intervals.

That flutters, in various senses of the verb.

figurative and in extended use. Resembling (that of) an ague; characteristic of an ague; esp. (a) coming in fits and starts or alternating bouts…

spec. in Pathology of the pulse, of a fever, etc. intermittent claudication: see claudication, n.

In reference to time or motion: Unequal or uneven in continuance, occurrence, or succession; occurring at variously unequal rates or intervals…

of time: Interrupted; ‘odd’.

= intermittent, adj.; spec. in Pathology = intermittent, adj. a.

Saw-like; serrate; serratic.

Of the pulse: = serratic, adj.

In intransitive senses. Lying scattered or spread out over a comparatively wide area; occurring sparsely or irregularly; sporadic; of a composite…

Resembling or suggesting the motion of a saw or the sound of sawing; = serratile, adj. (Cf. sawing, adj. 2.)

Occurring or seen now and then; intermittent, occasional.

Chiefly Medicine. (Of a disease or symptom) that remits; spec. designating a fever in which the patient's temperature periodically rises and falls…

Characterized by irregular fits of activity or strength; coming and going by fits and starts; full of irregular changes; spasmodic, shifting…

Characterized by or exhibiting a lack of periodicity; without regular recurrence; = aperiodic, adj.

Occurring or proceeding by fits and starts; irregular, intermittent; not sustained or kept up.

Of sleep: characterized by starts into wakefulness; interrupted, fitful. Also more generally: proceeding by fits and starts; intermittent. Obsolete.

Appearing and disappearing sportively.

‘Occurring at different times; irregular; intermittent: applied to the pulse’ (Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. 1854).

Pathology. = heterochronic, adj.

quasi-adj.

Consisting of, characterized by, snatches; irregular; spasmodic.

Appearing, happening, etc., now and again or at intervals; occasional.

= spasmodic, adj.

That occurs in short, irregular bursts; fitful; spasmodic; intermittent.

Full of or having many pauses.

Not periodic; without regular recurrence. In various technical senses (see quots.); spec. of a galvanometer, without periodic vibrations, ‘dead-beat’.

Sport. Of action: Ill-sustained, uneven, ‘ragged’. Also transferred.

Jerky, sudden.

Characterized by spurts; intermittent, spasmodic.

Designating a person or thing (esp. a condition or process) characterized by vacillation or alternating periods of action and inaction; = on-agai…

Off and on; vacillating, intermittent, patchy; = on-off, adj. 2.

= off and on, adj.