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Sprawling vs Sporadic - What's the difference?

sprawling | sporadic |

As adjectives the difference between sprawling and sporadic

is that sprawling is that sprawls while sporadic is rare and scattered in occurrence.

As a verb sprawling

is .

As a noun sprawling

is the act of one who sprawls.

sprawling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That sprawls
  • Expansive; extensive

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who sprawls.
  • * 1838 , Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
    • Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.

    sporadic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sporadick

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Rare and scattered in occurrence.
  • Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.

    • Derived terms

    * sporadic E layer

    Related terms

    * sporadical * sporadically * sporadicalness

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