English[edit]

Sentence

Etymology[edit]

From occasional +‎ -ly.

What does occasionally mean? Now and then; sometimes; on occasion.

Pronunciation[edit]

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  • IPA(key): /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, /əˈkeɪʒnəli/, /əˈkeɪʒənli/
  • Audio (US)
  • Hyphenation: oc‧ca‧sion‧al‧ly, oc‧casi‧onal‧ly, oc‧casion‧ally

Adverb[edit]

Occasional Ly Thuyet

Occasional

occasionally (comparativemore occasionally, superlativemost occasionally)

Word family (noun) occasion (adjective) occasional (adverb) occasionally From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English occasionally oc‧ca‧sion‧al‧ly / əˈkeɪʒ ə nəli / S2 W3 adverb SOMETIMES sometimes, but not regularly and not often Occasionally Alice would look up from her books. Occasionally definition is - on occasion: now and then. How to use occasionally in a sentence.

  1. (obsolete) On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way. [15th–18th c.]
    • 1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “The Fourth Letter. To the Same Favourable or Indifferent Reader.”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets,[] (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n., published 1870], , page 56:
      Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]
    • 1619, John Richardson, John Toland, The canon of the New Testament Vindicated, page 30
      I think it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have occaſionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the Canon...
  2. From time to time; sometimes; at relatively infrequent intervals. [from 15th c.]
    Synonyms:now and then, once in a while
    • 1639, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the Five Books of Moses, the Book of the Psalmes and the Song of Songs, page 177.
      God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
    • 1855, Horace Mann, 'On the Statistical Position of Religious Bodies in England and Wales,' Journal of the Statistical Society of London, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 152,
      Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
    • 1978, Stephen R. Graubard, 'Twenty Years of 'Daedalus',' Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 32, no. 3, p. 18,
      The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called 'fashionable' themes.
    • 2007, Matt Gouras/AP, 'Wildfires Rage in Montana,' Time, 17 Aug,
      Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.
      depends, QC Gang, How occasionally is ur dog?
  3. (obsolete) By chance; accidentally. [17th–18th c.]
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 161:
      Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.
    • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 81:
      [N]othing gave him so much joy in conversation, as an opportunity of giving the company to understand, how well he was with persons of distinguished rank and character: he would often (for example) observe, as it were occasionally, that the duke of G— was one of the best natured men in the world [].

Synonyms[edit]

  • on occasion, sometimes, at times, now and then

Translations[edit]

from time to time; now and then; once in a while; at infrequent intervals
  • Armenian: երբեմն(hy)(erbemn)
  • Assamese: মাজে মাজে(maze maze), কেতিয়াবা কেতিয়াবা(ketiaba ketiaba)
  • Bulgarian: от време на време(ot vreme na vreme), понякога(bg)(ponjakoga)
  • Catalan: ocasionalment(ca)
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 耐唔耐(noi6 m4 noi6-2), 有時(jau5 si4)
    Mandarin: 偶爾(zh), 偶尔(zh)(ǒu'ěr, ǒu'ér), 偶然(zh)(ǒurán)
  • Cornish: treweythyow
  • Czech: občas(cs), příležitostně
  • Dutch: af en toe(nl), wel eens, nu en dan(nl), soms(nl)
  • Esperanto: okaze, foje(eo), fojfoje(eo)(emphatic)
  • Faroese: viðhvørt, av og á
  • Finnish: joskus(fi), välillä(fi), välistä(fi), toisinaan(fi)
  • French: occasionnellement(fr)
  • Georgian: შემთხვევით(šemtxvevit)
  • German: gelegentlich(de)
  • Greek: περιστασιακά(el)(peristasiaká), πού και πού(el)(poú kai poú)
  • Hausa: rana-rana
  • Hungarian: néhanapján, alkalomadtán(hu), nagy ritkán, esetenként(hu), nagy néha
  • Irish: fo-uair
  • Japanese: たまに(tamani), 偶に(tamani)
  • Kabuverdianu: asbês
  • Kazakh: рабайда(rabayda), рабайдабір(rabaydabir)
  • Korean: 가끔(ko)(gakkeum)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: جاربەجار(carbecar), جاروبار(carubar)
  • Ladino: de vez en kuando
  • Maltese: okkażjonalment
  • Manx: nish as reesht
  • Norwegian: sporadisk(no), av og til(no), nå og da
  • Plautdietsch: enjawiess
  • Polish: od czasu do czasu(pl)
  • Portuguese: ocasionalmente(pt)
  • Romanian: ocazional(ro), câteodată(ro), uneori(ro)
  • Russian: иногда́(ru)(inogdá), и́зредка(ru)(ízredka), вре́мя от вре́мени(ru)(vrémja ot vrémeni)
  • Scottish Gaelic: uaireannan, corra uair
  • Serbo-Croatian: povremeno(sh), s vremena na vrijeme
  • Slovak: príležitostne, občas, zriedkavo
  • Slovene: občasno
  • Spanish: ocasionalmente(es), de vez en cuando(es), a veces(es)
  • Swedish: ibland(sv), då och då(sv)
  • Ukrainian: зрі́дка(zrídka), час від ча́су(uk)(čas vid čásu)
  • Vietnamese: đôi khi(vi)
  • Welsh: yn achlysurol
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Crossword clues for 'OCCASIONALLY'

ClueAnswer
From time to time (12)OCCASIONALLY

Synonyms, crossword answers and other related words for OCCASIONALLY

We hope that the following list of synonyms for the word occasionally will help you to finish your crossword today. We've arranged the synonyms in length order so that they are easier to find.
Occasional Ly

4 letter words

ONCE - TIME

6 letter words

BY FITS - RANDOM - SELDOM

7 letter words

AT TIMES - BY JERKS - BY SKIPS - IN SPOTS

8 letter words

BROKENLY - FITFULLY - OCCASION - OFF AND ON - RANDOMLY

9 letter words

BY CATCHES - PER SALTUM - SOMETIMES

10 letter words

AT ODD TIMES - BY SNATCHES - NOW AND THEN - ON OCCASION - SKIPPINGLY - UNCOMMONLY - WILLY-NILLY

11 letter words

AT INTERVALS - HAPHAZARDLY - IRREGULARLY - ONCE OR TWICE

12 letter words

ADVERB OF TIME - BETWEENTIMES - EVERY SO OFTEN - HERE AND THERE - INFREQUENTLY - OCCASIONALLY - ONCE AND AGAIN - ONCE IN A WHILE - PERIODICALLY - SPORADICALLY

13 letter words

BETWEENWHILES

14 letter words

AT VARIOUS TIMES - DISCONNECTEDLY - INTERMITTENTLY

15 letter words

DISCONTINUOUSLY

16 letter words

ONLY OCCASIONALLY

17 letter words

ON DIVERS OCCASIONS - ONLY WHEN NECESSARY

21 letter words

AT INFREQUENT INTERVALS

Definition of occasionally

  • now and then or here and there; 'he was arrogant and occasionally callous'; 'open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees'; 'they visit New York on occasion'; 'now and again she would take her favorite book from the shelf and read to us'; 'as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention'


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