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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening at regular intervals |
| Synonyms: | circular, patterned, periodic, recurrent, recurring, regular, repeated, repetitive, seasonal |
| Main Entry: | migrant/migratory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving, traveling |
| Synonyms: | casual, changing, drifting, emigrating, errant, gypsy, immigrant, immigrating, impermanent, itinerant, migrative, migratorial, mobile, nomad, nomadic, on the move, passing over, passing through, peripatetic, ranging, roving, seasonal, shifting, temporary, tramp, transient, transmigratory, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering |
| Antonyms: | staying |
| Main Entry: | odd |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miscellaneous, various |
| Synonyms: | accidental, casual, chance, contingent, different, fluky, fortuitous, fragmentary, incidental, irregular, occasional, odd-lot, periodic, random, seasonal, sundry, varied |
| Antonyms: | like, similar, unvaried |
| Main Entry: | perennial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enduring, perpetual |
| Synonyms: | abiding, annual, ceaseless, chronic, constant, continual, continuing, deathless, durable, eternal, everlasting, immortal, imperishable, incessant, inveterate, lasting, lifelong, long-lasting, long-lived, longstanding, never-ending, old, perdurable, permanent, persistent, recurrent, seasonal, sustained, unceasing, unchanging, undying, unfailing, uninterrupted, yearlong, yearly |
| Antonyms: | changing, intermittent, interrupted |
| Main Entry: | periodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at fixed intervals |
| Synonyms: | alternate, annual, at various times, centennial, cyclic, cyclical, daily, epochal, every once in a while, every so often, fluctuating, hourly, infrequent, intermittent, isochronal, isochronous, monthly, occasional, on certain occasions, on-again-off-again, orbital, perennial, periodical, recurrent, recurring, regular, repeated, rhythmic, routine, seasonal, serial, spasmodic, sporadic, weekly, yearly |
| Notes: | periodic means happening or recurring at regular intervals; sporadic means occurring singly or occasionally or in scattered instances |
| Antonyms: | constant, continual, irregular, lasting, permanent, sporadic, variable |
| Main Entry: | routine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | habitual |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, chronic, conventional, customary, everyday, familiar, general, methodical, normal, ordinary, periodic, plain, quotidian, regular, seasonal, standard, typical, unremarkable, usual, wonted, workaday |
| Antonyms: | breaking, different, original, untraditional, unusual |
| Main Entry: | seasonable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | timely, appropriate |
| Synonyms: | apropos, apt, auspicious, convenient, favorable, fit, opportune, pertinent, propitious, prosperous, providential, relevant, seasonal, suitable, timeous, towardly, welcome, well-timed |
| Notes: | seasonal means 'pertaining to the seasons' or 'periodical' and seasonable means 'suitable to the season'; so seasonal refers to a characteristic of an event or phenomenon, whereas seasonable offers a judgment about that characteristic |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, inclement, unfitting, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely |
| Main Entry: | migratory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving to another place |
| Synonyms: | mobile, moving, nomadic, roving, seasonal, transient, unsettled, wandering |
| Main Entry: | migrational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | migratory |
| Synonyms: | casual, changing, drifting, emigrating, errant, gypsy, immigrant, immigrating, impermanent, itinerant, migrant, migrative, migratorial, mobile, nomad, nomadic, on the move, passing over, passing through, peripatetic, ranging, roving, seasonal, shifting, temporary, tramp, transient, transmigratory, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering |
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