Occasional

//əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl//

Synonyms for "occasional" (92 found)

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Closest matches (19)

infrequent irregular accidental casual causative incidental sporadic uncommon accessory accompanying additional ado adventitious afloat afoot aleatory auxiliary behind the scenes

Adjective(1 words)

by the by

Strong matches (27)

by the way by-the-way causal causing ceremonial circumstantial conditional constitutive contingent creation current decisive determinative doing effectual etiological eventuating extra few fitful

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formative going on happening

Adjective(2 words)

casual episodic

Adjective(2 words)

causeless fortuitous

Related words (46)

in hand in the wind inessential institutive intermittent nonessential occurring odd off on on foot ongoing originative out-of-the-way parenthetic parenthetical part time part-time particular passing

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periodic pivotal prevailing prevalent provisional random rare resultant ritual scarce seldom side sometime spare spare time sparse spasmodic special supplementary taking place under way unessential unfrequent unpredictable

Adjective(1 words)

periodic

Adjective(1 words)

serendipitous

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Synonyms

8 entries

accidental casual causative causing incidental infrequent irregular uncommon

derived

10 entries

occasional bookcase occasional furniture occasional table occasionalism occasionalist occasionality occasionally occasionalness semioccasional unoccasional

derived from

1 entries

occasion

distinct from

1 entries

always

related to

1 entries

often

similar

8 entries

infrequent irregular sporadic unpredictable

Translations

45 translations across 26 languages.

Arabic

1 entries

عَرَضِيّ adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Bulgarian

2 entries

нередовен adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
случаен adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Catalan

1 entries

ocasional adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

偶然 adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
偶爾 /偶尔 adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Cornish

1 entries

treweythus adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Czech

2 entries

občasný adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
příležitostný adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Dutch

4 entries

af en toe adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
indicenteel adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
nu en dan adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
occasioneel adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Finnish

1 entries

satunnainen adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

French

1 entries

occasionnel adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

German

2 entries

gelegentlich adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
okkasionell adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Hungarian

2 entries

alkalmi adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
esetenkénti adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Irish

1 entries

ócáideach adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Italian

1 entries

occasionale adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Japanese

4 entries

偶 adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
偶然な adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
偶発的 adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
時折の adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Korean

1 entries

가끔하는 adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Maltese

1 entries

okkażjonali adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Manx

1 entries

keayrtagh adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Polish

4 entries

okazjonalny adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
przypadkowy adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
rzadki adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
sporadyczny adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Portuguese

1 entries

ocasional adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Romanian

1 entries

ocazional adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Russian

2 entries

ре́дкий adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
случа́йный adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

corra adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Slovak

2 entries

občasný adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
príležitostný adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Spanish

2 entries

esporádico adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
ocasional adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Swedish

2 entries

an adverb is most often used instead. adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)
ockasionell adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Welsh

1 entries

achlysurol adj (limited to certain occasions; not very often)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

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I have occasional pains in the stomach.

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We are expecting an occasional rainfall.

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Cloudy with occasional rain.

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He doesn't travel much apart from occasional business trips.

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