occasionally

B1 Topic:Time

US /əˈkeɪʒənəli/ See IPA manual

Freq #6234

Meanings

1

adv
From time to time; now and then, but not often.

We occasionally meet for coffee on weekends.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adv · from time to time; now and... at timesfrom time to timenow and againnow and thenon occasiononce in a while

More intermittently irregularly sometimes sporadically uncommonly while whilom

Opposites

rarely usually

Word family

Related forms flakily frequency unreliably unusually

Etymology

From Middle English occasionally, occasionaly, occasyoneely, occasyonly, equivalent to occasional + -ly.

occasionally Middle English

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Topics

Time

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