occasionally
438
2.0
- adverb
- /əˈkeɪʒənəli/
:
de vez en cuando
- We go to the beach occasionally, especially during the summer months.
- only occasionally
- occur occasionally
- occasionally visit
I use rooster sauce occasionally, mainly on popcorn.
- I use rooster sauce occasionally, mainly on popcorn.
- Mostly boys, but occasionally you do find a female like that.
- And yeah, occasionally things would go a little bit wrong.
- Later, Trump's eyes closed again and his head occasionally dipped slowly.
- He, he he would occasionally read, read a line before me.
- I do throw feces occasionally for fun and when I'm angry.
- And if you wait a little while, you occasionally will see a flash of light.
- No, we would occasionally have interaction with him.
- And they hire actors occasionally on the street.
- So I would occasionally like sneak out and have a cigarette.
- You know that even occasionally is too much.
- I, I come across it in occasionally in social issues.
- Bacon, eggs, butter, beef, occasionally kilts his ice cream and salt.
Examples
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Anyone in brief authority must occasionally reflect on his own demeanor.
Academic text (2011) -
Meanwhile, I was selling various food and gardening features occasionally to my local newspaper.
Academic text (2011) -
And yeah, occasionally things would go a little bit wrong.
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I started to notice things occasionally seem out of place.
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And if you wait a little while, you occasionally will see a flash of light.
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Sometimes she stayed there for a month or two at a time, occasionally a little longer.
Fiction book (1990) -
But occasionally religion crosses over.
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Although young children are known for their seemingly boundless energy, occasionally they will want quiet time.
Academic text (1999) -
It's a combination of data acquisition, data analysis, occasionally some in-depth data mining.
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Hank was a mining engineer who lived alone and occasionally went on long expeditions into the Far North.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
On some occasions but not always
539
1.0
Happens only a few times
451
1.0
Happens sometimes but not often
427
1.6
Sometimes, but not very often
285
1.0
Happens sometimes but not very often
267
1.4
Happens sometimes but not regularly
137
2.0
Sometimes, not very often
122
1.7
Not happening or done very often
88
1.6
Happens one or two times, not often
79
1.7
It happens sometimes but not very often
73
2.0
Happens sometimes but not regularly
54
2.3
Happens sometimes but not very often
41
2.4
Happens sometimes, but not very often
30
2.5
Happens sometimes but not regularly
16
5.0
Happening only sometimes
15
6.0
In a way that stops and starts at irregular times
13
6.5
Happening only sometimes and not regularly
6
5.0
Happens very rarely
1
7.4
Happens at irregular times, starting and stopping
Does not happen often
Not happening often
Antonyms
How Often
Surface Forms
Morphology
occasionally = occasional (transparent) = occasion + al + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'occasional', yielding a predictable adverbial meaning.
Etymology
The word occasionally comes from occasion, a word that originally meant a 'chance' or a 'happening', so to do something occasionally is to do it on certain occasions — 'now and then', not often.