Vocabulary
Intermittent
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady.
Urdu meaning
وقفے وقفے والا، باری کا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Geopolitical headwinds aside, successive governments have, in the past three decades, launched intermittent reform efforts from organisational restructuring to rebranding to digitisation drives aimed at making the FBR efficient.
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Tax shortfall
— 2026-05-02
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Industrial pollution controls require genuine oversight rather than intermittent crackdowns.
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World`s dirtiest air
— 2026-03-26
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If solar is the cheapest energy in history, does our vision treat it as baseload or as an intermittent supplement?
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Energy vision
— 2026-03-07
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The government needs to move beyond intermittent revisions of prices of the fuel for longer-term sustainability of the gas sector, given that we are fast exhausting the domestic resource through its wasteful and inefficient use.
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High gas rates
— 2023-09-11
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The government needs to move beyond intermittent revisions of prices of the fuel for longer-term sustainability of the gas sector, given that we are fast exhausting the domestic resource through its wasteful and inefficient use.
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High gas rates
— 2023-09-11
Synonyms
sporadic, irregular, fitful, spasmodic, broken, fragmentary, discontinuous, disconnected,
Antonyms
continuous, steady
Curator example
“intermittent rain”
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