sporadic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances
    • a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids

WordNet

Spo*rad"ic adjective
Etymology
Gr. scattered, fr. , , scattered, fr. to sow seed, to scatter like seed: cf. F. sporadique. See Spore.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913