(written) happening only occasionally or at intervals that are not regular:
sporadic fighting / gunfire / violence * sporadic outbreaks of the disease
sporadically adverb:
She attended lectures only sporadically. * Fighting continued sporadically for two months.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for sporadic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sporadic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sporadic is tagged as adjective.
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