How do you pronounce intermittent?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/.

intermittent

/ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.39 in modern English

Syllables: in-ter-mit-tent
IPA: /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/

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Meaning

adj

Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

adj

Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.

noun

An intermittent fever or disease.

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Example Sentences

"The day was cloudy with intermittent rain."
"Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce."
"Also bloudletting is good in feuers, whether they be continual or intermittent […]"
"[…] the Gift of Prophecy […] was in the mind not as an Inhabitant, but as a Guest; that is, by intermittent Returns and Ecstasies, by Occasional Raptures and Revelations; as is clear from what we read of the Prophets in the Old Testament."
"[…] Pale through night’s curtain gleam’d By fits the lunar intermittent ray, That quiv’ring serv’d to light his lonely steps"
"[…] by degrees the talk became as flickering and intermittent as the light of the dying fire, which they were too idle to feed with sticks […]"

Etymology

From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).

Origin

Source language: Middle French

Word Breakdown

Root: intermittent, intermittens

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/
British English: /ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/

Usage

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Inflected Forms

more intermittent (comparative) most intermittent (superlative) intermittents (plural)

Derived Forms

intermittently intermittentness nonintermittent unintermittent

Phrases

Charcot intermittent fever Charcot's intermittent fever intermittent explosive disorder intermittent fasting intermittent lake inter-

Frequently Paired Words

inter inter- intermit intermittence intermittency

Synonyms

periodic periodical patchy spasmodic broken fitful ragged catchy discontinuous intermissive intermittent stop-start

Antonyms

steady constant continual