Word Meanings - OCCASIONALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OCCASIONALLY)

• Seldom
• Rarely
• infrequently
• occasionally
• inconstantly
• hardly ever

Related words: (words related to OCCASIONALLY)

• SELDOMNESS
  Rareness. Hooker.
• SELDOM
  Rarely; not often; not frequently. Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. Hooker. (more info) seldon, seldum, fr. seld rare; akin to OFries. sielden, D. zelden, G. selten, OHG. seltan, Icel. sjaldan, Dan. sielden, Sw. sällan, Goth.
• INFREQUENTLY
  Not frequently; rarely.
• 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.
• HARDLY
  1. In a hard or difficult manner; with difficulty. Recovering hardly what he lost before. Dryden. 2. Unwillingly; grudgingly. The House of Peers gave so hardly theiMilton. 3. Scarcely; barely; not guite; not wholly. Hardly shall you one so bad,
• INCONSTANTLY
  In an inconstant manner.
• RARELY
  1. In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen. 2. Finely; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2. The person who played so rarely on the flageolet. Sir W. Scott. The rest of the spartments are rarely gilded. Evelyn.
• UNSELDOM
  Not seldom; frequently.
• SEMIOCCASIONALLY
  Once in a while; on rare occasions.