intermittently.

With intervals of interruption rather than continuously.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• intermittently available
• intermittently operating

On the page

The resource was intermittently available during the review.

The device operated intermittently while the fault was being assessed.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Invariable adverb; use more or most only where natural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common.