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English[edit]

1400, 'happening on some particular occasion,' also 'sometimes, happening as occasion presents itself, without regularity,' from occasional + -ly (2). Entries related to occasionally -ly. What does occasionally mean? Now and then; sometimes; on occasion.

Etymology[edit]

From occasional +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation[edit]

Find out what causes those occasional night twitches and what can be done to stop them and sleep better. Bit.ly/3qXjmXh Underlying common causes, and what to do to sleep better and more soundly. New Year’s Eve is traditionally when we fix our gaze firmly forward in hope, having cast a backward glance at the year just ended. Which, despite the negatives, saw a healthy increase in good-neighbourliness and kindness as demonstrated, for instance, by caremongering. Occasional: Teachers should occasionally let their students blow off some steam. Occasional: There is a severe shortage of water in this city, so we must give up having a bath occasionally. Occasional: The speaker occasionally referred to his notes. Occasional: The sun is currently in a period of low activity but even so large sunspots.

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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]

occasionally (comparativemore occasionally, superlativemost occasionally)

Occasional Ly Long

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.

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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

Occasionally

Translations[edit]

Occaually

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