Meaning of OCCASIONAL
| Pronunciation: | | u'keyzhunl
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | casual, episodic, irregular, unpredictable |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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