occasionally
adv/əˈkeɪʒənəli/
Etymology
From Middle English occasionally, occasionaly, occasyoneely, occasyonly, equivalent to occasional + -ly.
- inherited from occasionally
Definitions
On occasion
On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
- God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
- Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
- The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.
On an occasion, accidentally, by chance.
- Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.
- I had met Lord Ossory in the forenoon, who had come to town occasionally.
On the occasion of something else happening
On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.
- Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]
- 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...
The neighborhood
- synonymat times
- synonymever and anon
- synonymevery once in a while
- synonymevery now and then
- synonymevery so often
- synonymfrom time to time
- synonymintermittently
- synonymirregularly
- synonymnow and again
- synonymnow and then
- synonymoccasionally
- synonymon occasion
- antonymusually
- antonymrarely
- neighborflakily
- neighborunreliably
- neighborfrequency
- neighborunusually
- neighborspecifically
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for occasionally. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA