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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /spɔˈrædɪk/,
IPA: /spəˈræd.ɪk/,
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-sporadic.ogg

Adjective

rare and scattered in occurrence
exhibiting random behavior; patternless

Derived terms

sporadic E layer

Related terms

Translations

Chinese: wúcháng (), sànluàn (), 偶爾發生的
Dutch: sporadisch
Finnish: harvinainen, satunnainen, sporadinen

Indonesian: sporadis
Japanese: 散発的な (sanpatsuteki na)
Spanish: esporádico

Finnish: satunnainen, hajanainen, sporadinen

et:sporadic io:sporadic pl:sporadic ru:sporadic ta:sporadic te:sporadic vi:sporadic

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]

WordNet sporadic
adj : recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable
instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"
[ant: continual]

Moby Dictionary
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