intermittently

Definitions

At irregular intervals; not continuously or steadily.

In a way that stops and starts repeatedly.

Examples

The old engine ran intermittently, sputtering to a halt every few miles.

Rain fell intermittently throughout the afternoon, forcing us to keep moving our picnic indoors.

Synonyms

sporadically occasionally fitfully periodically irregularly off and on at intervals

Antonyms

constantly continuously perpetually incessantly uninterruptedly steadily always