About The Word Occasional
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Occasional
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What's The Definition Of Occasional?
[adj] occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches"
[adj] employed in a specified capacity from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker" Synonyms | Synonyms for Occasional: casual | episodic | irregular | unpredictable Related Terms | Find terms related to Occasional: accessory | accidental | accompanying | additional | ado | adventitious | afloat | afoot | aleatory | auxiliary | behind the scenes | by-the-way | casual | causal | causative | ceremonial | circumstantial | conditional | constitutive | contingent | current | decisive | determinative | doing | effectual | etiological | eventuating | extra | few | formative | going on | happening | in hand | in the wind | incidental | inessential | infrequent | institutive | intermittent | irregular | nonessential | occurring | odd | off | on | on foot | ongoing | originative | out-of-the-way | parenthetical | particular | part-time | passing | periodic | pivotal | prevailing | prevalent | provisional | random | rare | resultant | ritual | scarce | seldom | side | spare | special | sporadic | supplementary | taking place | uncommon | under way | unessential | unfrequent See Also | Occasional In Webster's Dictionary \Oc*ca"sion*al\, a. [Cf.F. occasionnel.]
1. Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring
at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made
or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual;
incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts.
The . . . occasional writing of the present times.
--Bagehot.
2. Produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a
thing. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
{Occasional cause} (Metaph.), some circumstance preceding an
effect which, without being the real cause, becomes the
occasion of the action of the efficient cause; thus, the
act of touching gunpowder with fire is the occasional, but
not the efficient, cause of an explosion.
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