Occasionally - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms

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SKIP TO CONTENT occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/ /əˈkeɪʒənəli/ IPA guide

Something that happens occasionally doesn't happen all the time, just every once in a while. You play poker occasionally just to remind yourself that you always lose.

The adverb occasionally is good for things that happen every now and then. You get tired of the cold occasionally, but the snow is lovely. Occasionally, you think of your long lost love, but never write. The idea comes to you occasionally that you should move somewhere with more people and warmer weather. I worry about you occasionally.

Definitions of occasionally

adverb now and then or here and there “he was arrogant and occasionally callous” “open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees” synonyms: at times, from time to time, now and again, now and then, on occasion, once in a while

Pronunciation US /əˈkeɪʒənəli/ UK /əˈkeɪʒənəli/ Cite this entry Style: MLA

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Vocabulary lists containing occasionally

"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates

In this short story, 15-year-old Connie befriends a charismatic but increasingly sinister stranger.

Excerpt from "Bad Boy"

The alliterative title calls to mind Richard Wright's "Black Boy." Both are memoirs by African-American men who started off mischievous and grew up to become award-winning writers. But as the excerpt from "Bad Boy" shows, Walter Dean Myers is less focused on racial identity and more concerned with connecting to young adult readers. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 7 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: The Road Not Taken, Choices, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Dust Tracks on a Road, Bad Boy, Why Couldn't I Have Been Named Ashley?, Phaethon, Daedalus and Icarus, Arachne, The Lion, the Fox, and the Stag, A Note from the Author, creation myths

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter now has children of his own, but when his son Albus begins school at Hogwarts, it seems that the past is returning to haunt them both.

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