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Adjective: sporadic  spu'ra-dik
  1. Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances
    "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

See also: discontinuous, fitful, infrequent, intermittent, irregular, isolated, noncontinuous, occasional, periodic, spasmodic, sporadically, stray, unpredictable

Antonym: continual

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spoondrift
spoonerism
spoonfeed
spoonfeeding
spoonflower
spoonful
spoonleaf yucca
spoon-shaped
spoony
spoor
sporadic
sporadically
sporangiophore
sporangium
Sporanox
spore
spore case
spore mother cell
spore sac
spore-bearing
Spork