occasional

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adjective

1. Happening or appearing now and then: fitful, intermittent, periodic, periodical, sporadic. Informal on-again, off-again. See continue/stop/pause.
2. Rarely occurring or appearing: infrequent, rare, scarce, sporadic, uncommon, unusual. Idioms: few and far between. See usual/unusual.

adj

Definition: irregular, sporadic
Antonyms: constant, frequent, regular, steady, usual

A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

adj.

Afflicting us with greater or less frequency. That, however, is not the sense in which the word is used in the phrase "occasional verses," which are verses written for an "occasion," such as an anniversary, a celebration or other event. True, they afflict us a little worse than other sorts of verse, but their name has no reference to irregular recurrence.

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IN BRIEF: adj. - Occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; Occurring from time to time.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude. — Martin Luther King Jr

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• Relative Time - occasional: (adj) occurring infrequently or irregularly

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See words rhyming with "occasional."

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - som forekommer nu og da

Nederlands (Dutch)
incidenteel, toevallig

Français (French)
adj. - de temps en temps (un événement), (Météo) intermittent, de circonstance (sout)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - gelegentlich, Gelegenheits-

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - σποραδικός, τυχαίος, απρόβλεπτος, περιστασιακός

Italiano (Italian)
sporadico, occasionale, accidentale, casuale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - ocasional, eventual

Русский (Russian)
случайный, редкий

Español (Spanish)
adj. - ocasional, infrecuente, esporádico, eventual, fortuito

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - tillfällig, enstaka, sporadisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
偶然的, 备不时之需的, 临时的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 偶然的, 備不時之需的, 臨時的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 이따금씩, 특별한 경우를 위한, 임시의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 時折の, 時々の, 特別な場合のための, 臨時の, 誘因となる, 偶然の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) عرضي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מדי פעם, מזדמן, לא קבוע, מקרי, נועד למקרה מיוחד, לא סדיר, לא תדיר‬

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