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Synonyms for intermittent
The synonym for intermittent recorded in this bank is fitful, in the sense "stopping and starting at irregular intervals". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for intermittent
- fitfuladjective, in the sense "stopping and starting at irregular intervals"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for intermittent.
stopping and starting at irregular intervals
The wifi connection was intermittent all evening, dropping out every few minutes.
The true synonym
fitful
Same sentence, swapped: The wifi connection was fitful all evening, dropping out every few minutes.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- stable
- encrypted
- wireless
Where intermittent turns up in the game
intermittent is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play intermittent
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so intermittent reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from time at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. intermittent carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.