OCCASIONALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does occasionally mean? 

• OCCASIONALLY (adverb)
  The adverb OCCASIONALLY has 1 sense:

1. sporadically and infrequently

  Familiarity information: OCCASIONALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCCASIONALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sporadically and infrequently

Synonyms:

at times; from time to time; now and again; now and then; occasionally; on occasion; once in a while

Context example:

as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention

Pertainym:

occasional (occurring from time to time)

 Context examples 

Occasionally, with faces which were convulsed with fear and hatred, they shook their clenched hands at the woods round and cried: "Doda! Doda!" which was surely their term for their enemies.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These field lines may occasionally reconfigure themselves and produce a bright outburst of X-rays.

(NASA’s Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way’s Black Hole, NASA)

If you are like many Americans, you drink alcohol at least occasionally.

(Alcohol, NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)

Sir George—whom, by-the-bye, I have forgotten to describe,—a very big, and very fresh-looking country gentleman, stands before their sofa, coffee- cup in hand, and occasionally puts in a word.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Occasionally it goes away, either temporarily or for good.

(Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

There can be no doubt that Lady Russell and Anne were both occasionally thinking of Captain Benwick, from this time.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Occasionally, the new lesions are urothelial carcinomas.

(Bladder Papillary Urothelial Neoplasm of Low Malignant Potential, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of neoplastic cells forming round solid nests and occasionally glandular structures.

(Appendix Enterochromaffin Cell Serotonin-Producing Neuroendocrine Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Occasionally, patients have systemic symptoms (anemia, fever, and weight loss).

(Angiomatoid Fibrous Histiocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It was only by an effort that he occasionally responded.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)