Definition of Sporadic

1. Adjective. Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances. "A city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"


Definition of Sporadic

1. a. Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower.

Definition of Sporadic

1. Adjective. Rare and scattered in occurrence. ¹

2. Adjective. Exhibiting random behavior; patternless. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sporadic

1. occurring at irregular intervals [adj]

Medical Definition of Sporadic

1. Neither endemic nor epidemic, occurring occasionally in a random or isolated manner. Origin: Gr. Sporadikos = scattered, L. Sporadicus This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporadic

spoonwood
spoonworm
spoonworms
spoonwort
spoony
spoor
spoored
spoorer
spoorers
spooring
spoors
spoot
spoots
sporades
sporadial
sporadic (current term)
sporadic E
sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis
sporadic bovine leukosis
sporadical
sporadically
sporadin
sporadotrichina
sporal
sporange
sporanges
sporangia
sporangial
sporangiophore

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