off and on

1. 1.

   not regularly

   “they phone each other off and on”

   Synonymson and off

Questions about off and on

What does off and on mean?

off and on means "not regularly".

What is another word for off and on?

Close synonyms include on and off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is off and on a common word?

off and on is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.