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on and off

on and off adverb: intermittently.

Adverb

on and off (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Intermittently.
    • With so much worry, I only slept on and off last night.

on and off meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

on and off in Bengali

সবিরামভাবে

on and off in Malayalam

off and on, intervals, periodically
ഇടയ്ക്കിടെ, കാലാകാലത്ത്, കാലികമായി, സമയാസമയങ്ങളിൽ, കാലാകാലങ്ങളിൽ, അന്തരാന്തരാ

Forms of on and off

alternative formon-and-off
alternative formoff and on

Questions about on and off

What does on and off mean?
On and off means intermittently.
What is on and off in Bengali?
On and off in Bengali is সবিরামভাবে. See On and off meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is on and off?
On and off is an adverb.

Words near on and off in the dictionary

  1. on all-fours
  2. on an empty stomach
  3. on an equal footing
  4. on an impulse
  5. on an irregular basis
  6. on and off
  7. on and on
  8. on and poppin'
  9. on and popping
  10. on another note
  11. on any view

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: on and off (page history and authors); on and off (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); on and off (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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