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Definition of Occasional
1. Adjective. Occurring from time to time. "Took an occasional glass of wine"
2. Adjective. Occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals. "Occasional headaches"
3. Adjective. Occurring from time to time. "An occasional worker"
4. Adjective. Recurring or reappearing from time to time. "Periodic feelings of anxiety"
Definition of Occasional
1. a. 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.
Definition of Occasional
1. Adjective. Occurring or appearing irregularly from time to time. ¹
2. Adjective. Not very often. ¹
3. Adjective. Created for a specific occasion. ¹
4. Adjective. Intended for use as the occasion requires. ¹
5. Adjective. Acting in the indicated role from time to time. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Occasional
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Occasional
1. Appearing or occurring irregularly and according to no fixed or certain scheme. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Occasional
Literary usage of Occasional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1900)
"... of climate and of the level of the land, and by occasional means—Dispersal
during the Glacial period —Alternate Glacial periods in the North and South. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"These do not rise above the average level of the occasional literature of humanism.
No subtler meaning and no original or striking thoughts are concealed ..."
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