Word Meanings - OCCASIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. 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. The... occasional writing
Additional info about word: OCCASIONAL
1. 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. The... occasional writing of the present times. Bagehot. 2. Produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a thing. Sir T. Browne. Occasional cause , some circumstance preceding an effect which, without being the real cause, becomes the occasion of the action of the efficient cause; thus, the act of touching gunpowder with fire is the occasional, but not the efficient, cause of an explosion.
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- ACCIDENTALLY
In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially. - FORTUITOUS
Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes. Abbott. Syn. -- Accidental; casual; contingent; incidental. See Accidental. -- For*tu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- For*tu"i*tous*ness, n. (more info) - APPERTINENT
Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge. - OCCASIONALISM
The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body. - INCIDENTAL
Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses. By some, religious - CASUALISM
The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance. - CASUALTY
Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident. Syn. -- Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune. (more info) 1. That which comes - CONCOMITANTLY
In company with others; unitedly; concurrently. Bp. pearson. - OCCASIONALLY
In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller. - CONCOMITANT
Accompanying; conjoined; attending. It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure. Locke. - ACCIDENTALNESS
The quality of being accidental; casualness. - CASUALNESS
The quality of being casual. - OCCASIONAL
1. 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. The... occasional writing - CONCURRENTNESS
The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence. - CASUALLY
Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally. - ACCIDENTALITY
The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. Coleridge. - CONCURRENTLY
With concurrence; unitedly. - OCCASIONALITY
Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence. - ACCIDENTALISM
Accidental character or effect. Ruskin. - CONCURRENT
Meeting in one point. Syn. -- Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united. (more info) 1. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; coöperating. I join with - SEMIOCCASIONALLY
Once in a while; on rare occasions. - COINCIDENTAL
Coincident.