| Main Entry: | recur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen again; repeat in one's mind |
Synonyms: |
be remembered, be repeated, come again, come and go, come back, crop up again, haunt thoughts, iterate, persist, reappear, recrudesce, reiterate, repeat, return, return to mind, revert, run through one's mind, turn back |
Antonyms: |
halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | alternate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | every other |
Synonyms: |
alternating, every second, intermittent, periodic, recurrent, recurring, rotating |
| Notes: | alternate means 'one after the other' or 'each succeeding the other in turn, especially continuously' and alternative means 'one instead of the other' or 'allowing or necessitating a choice between two or more things' |
| Main Entry: | appear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come into sight |
Synonyms: |
arise, arrive, attend, be present, be within view, blow in, bob up, break through, breeze in, check in, clock in, come, come forth, come into view, come out, come to light, crop up, develop, drop in, emerge, expose, issue, loom, make the scene, materialize, occur, pop in, pop up, present, punch in, punch the clock, recur, ring in, rise, roll in, show, show up, spring, surface, time in, turn out, turn up |
Antonyms: |
disappear, hide |
| Main Entry: | chronic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incessant, never-ending |
Synonyms: |
abiding, ceaseless, confirmed, constant, continual, continuing, continuous, deep-rooted, deep-seated, enduring, ever-present, fixed, habitual, inborn, inbred, incurable, ineradicable, ingrained, inveterate, lasting, lifelong, lingering, long-lived, long-standing, obstinate, perennial, persistent, persisting, prolonged, protracted, recurrent, recurring, rooted, routine, settled, stubborn, sustained, tenacious, unabating, unmitigated, unyielding, usual |
Antonyms: |
curable, eradicable, intermittent, occasional, temporary |
| Main Entry: | come back |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | return |
Synonyms: |
come again, do better, re-enter, reappear, recover, recur, remigrate, resume, triumph |
Antonyms: |
depart, go, leave |
| Main Entry: | cyclical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening at regular intervals |
Synonyms: |
circular, patterned, periodic, recurrent, recurring, regular, repeated, repetitive, seasonal |
| Main Entry: | frequent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, repeated |
Synonyms: |
a good many, commonplace, constant, continual, customary, everyday, expected, familiar, general, habitual, incessant, intermittent, iterated, manifold, many, monotonous, numberless, numerous, periodic, perpetual, persistent, pleonastic, profuse, recurrent, recurring, redundant, reiterated, reiterative, successive, thick, ubiquitous, usual, various |
Antonyms: |
inconstant, infrequent, irregular, occasional, rare, sporadic, uncommon, unrepeated, unusual |
| Main Entry: | happen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to pass; occur |
Synonyms: |
appear, arise, arrive, be found, become a fact, become known, become of, befall, betide, bump, chance, come about, come after, come into being, come into existence, come off, crop up, develop, down, ensue, eventuate, fall, follow, go on, hit, issue, light, luck, materialize, meet, pass, present itself, proceed, recur, result, shake, smoke*, spring, stumble, stumble upon, supervene, take effect, take place, transpire, turn out, turn up, what goes |
| Main Entry: | haunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | visit as a spirit |
Synonyms: |
agitate, agonize, annoy, appall, appear, be ever present, bedevil, beset, besiege, come back, disquiet, dwell, float, frighten, harass, harrow, hound, hover, infest, inhabit, intrude, madden, manifest, materialize, molest, nettle, obsess, overrun, permeate, pervade, pester, plague, possess, prey on, rack, reappear, recur, return, rise, spook, stay with, tease, terrify, terrorize, torment, trouble, vex, voodoo, walk, weigh on, worry |
| Main Entry: | intermittent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irregular, sporadic |
Synonyms: |
alternate, arrested, broken, by bits and pieces, checked, cyclic, cyclical, discontinuing, discontinuous, epochal, every other, fitful, here and there, hit-or-miss, infrequent, interrupted, isochronal, isochronous, iterant, iterative, metrical, now and then, occasional, on and off, periodic, periodical, punctuated, recurrent, recurring, rhythmic, rhythmical, seasonal, serial, shifting, spasmodic, stop-and-go |
Antonyms: |
constant, continual, continuing, perpetual, regular |