Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
intermittently stopping and starting;
- Example: "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"- Example: "off-and-on static"[syn: fitful, interrupted, off-and-on(a)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
off-and-on \off-and-on\ adj.
discontinuous; not continuous. Opposite of continuous.
[prenominal]
Syn: interrupted.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
off-and-on
adj 1: intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or
interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static" [syn: fitful,
interrupted, off-and-on(a)]