What does Occasional mean?

Definitions for Occasional
əˈkeɪ ʒə nloc·ca·sion·al

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. occasional(a)adjective

    occurring from time to time

    "took an occasional glass of wine"

  2. episodic, occasionaladjective

    occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals

    "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches"

  3. casual, occasionaladjective

    occurring from time to time

    "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"

  4. periodic, occasionaladjective

    recurring or reappearing from time to time

    "periodic feelings of anxiety"

GCIDE

  1. Occasionaladjective

    Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; intended for a specific occasion; for use only when needed, and not regularly.

Wiktionary

  1. occasionaladjective

    Occurring or appearing irregularly from time to time.

    He was mostly solitary, but enjoyed the occasional visitor.

  2. occasionaladjective

    Not very often.

    He took an occasional glass of wine.

  3. occasionaladjective

    Created for a specific occasion.

    Elgar's music was not created to be occasional music for high-school graduations.

  4. occasionaladjective

    Intended for use as the occasion requires.

    What your living room needs are some occasional chairs.

  5. occasionaladjective

    Acting in the indicated role from time to time.

    He is an occasional contributor to letters to the editor.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Occasionaladjective

    Etymology: occasionel, Fr. from occasion.

    Thus much is sufficient out of scripture, to verify our explication of the deluge, according to the Mosaical history of the flood, and according to many occasional reflections dispersed in other places of scripture concerning it. Burnet.

    The ground or occasional original hereof, was the amazement and sudden silence the unexpected appearance of wolves does often put upon travellers. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

    Those letters were not writ to all;
    Nor first intended but occasional,
    Their absent sermons. John Dryden, Hind. and Panth.

ChatGPT

  1. occasional

    Occasional refers to something that happens or appears from time to time in irregular, infrequent intervals, or happens on special or random occasions rather than on a continuous, regular, or systematic basis. It also refers to something that is performed, used, or suitable for specific events or occasions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Occasionaladjective

    of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts

  2. Occasionaladjective

    produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a thing

  3. Etymology: [Cf. F. occasionnel.]

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Occasional' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3616

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Occasional' in Adjectives Frequency: #491

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Occasional in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Occasional in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Occasional in a Sentence

  1. Dave Battle:

    It’s a continual large-scale attractant. It’s not just the occasional tent that has it, it seems to be a lot of the tents that have it, unless we can keep attractants out of tents, almost any bear that happens by there is going to end up in the camp and in tents.

  2. Frederic Ponchon:

    They could enjoy occasional breakthroughs but it won't carry a lot of weight in their overall sales, we can see that Sanofi takes cancer seriously but you must remember R&D cycles are very long. So I would say Sanofi won't be a great player in oncology but it may have some successes from time to time.

  3. Sydney Smith:

    His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

  4. Josh Wein:

    We’ve come a long way in a short time, it won’t take a lot for the market to pause ... whether it’s deliberations over fiscal stimulus, or the occasional talk of inflation or interest rates getting some lift.

  5. Peter Singer:

    Effective altruists in my experience don't feel guilty about occasional indulgences, if they're doing it in the long run, they have to give themselves a break now and again.

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