Definition for Occasional:

• Belonging to some special occasion.

Synonyms for Occasional:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • casual,
  • occasional.
  •circumstantial (adjective)
  • incidental,
  • inferential,
  • inconclusive,
  • landmark,
  • circumstantial,
  • indirect,
  • eventual,
  • episodic,
  • presumptive,
  • uncertain.
  •few (adjective)
  • minority,
  • some,
  • thin,
  • middling,
  • short,
  • not too many,
  • paltry,
  • meager,
  • piddling,
  • scattering,
  • widely spaced,
  • less,
  • scanty,
  • imperceptible,
  • few and far between,
  • slender,
  • stingy,
  • inconsequential,
  • negligible,
  • few,
  • exiguous,
  • minor,
  • straggling,
  • skimpy,
  • petty,
  • slim,
  • minute,
  • lean,
  • scarcely any,
  • slight,
  • sparse,
  • Unfrequent,
  • insufficient,
  • semioccasional,
  • scattered,
  • scant,
  • not many,
  • inconsiderable,
  • trifling.
  •incidental (adjective)
  • chance,
  • nonessential,
  • attendant,
  • concurrent,
  • accompanying,
  • subsidiary,
  • subordinate,
  • contributory,
  • by-the-way,
  • ancillary,
  • secondary,
  • concomitant,
  • contributing,
  • coincidental,
  • fluke.
  •irregular (adjective)
  • nonuniform,
  • unmethodical,
  • unpunctual,
  • random,
  • Designless.
  •miscellaneous, various (adjective)
  • odd.
  •occasional (adjective)
  • seldom,
  • off and on,
  • not habitual,
  • desultory,
  • uncommon,
  • rare,
  • unusual.
  •odd (adjective)
  • sundry,
  • odd-lot,
  • different,
  • varied.
  •on-again, off-again (adjective)
  • on again, off again.
  •on and off (adjective)
  • sporadic.
  •rare (adjective)
  • un thinkable,
  • subtilest,
  • un imaginable,
  • un likelier,
  • un-wonted,
  • Subtile,
  • sub tiler,
  • un likeliest,
  • sub tile,
  • un-thinkable,
  • un-likely,
  • recherche,
  • sub-tile,
  • most attenuate,
  • in-conceivable,
  • more attenuate,
  • sub-tiler,
  • most attenuated,
  • un likely,
  • subtiler,
  • extra ordinary,
  • out of ordinary,
  • STANDOUT,
  • more recherche,
  • un-likelier,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • un-likeliest,
  • more attenuated,
  • out the ordinary,
  • rarest,
  • most recherche,
  • unheard of,
  • in conceivable,
  • out ordinary,
  • un wonted,
  • un-imaginable.
  •scarce (adjective)
  • in short supply,
  • most shortened,
  • more truncated,
  • most truncated,
  • more shortened,
  • at a premium,
  • seldom met with,
  • at premium.
  •scattered (adjective)
  • more strewn,
  • most strewn.
  •sparse (adjective)
  • in-adequate,
  • scrimpiest,
  • scrimpier,
  • scrimpy,
  • more dispersed,
  • in adequate,
  • most dispersed.
  •sporadic (adjective)
  • bits and pieces,
  • fits starts,
  • fits and starts,
  • bits pieces.
  •standout (adjective)
  • out standing,
  • pre eminent,
  • pre-eminent,
  • out-standing.

• n.

  •
  • from time to time,
  • every so often,
  • (every) now and then/again.
  •
  • exceptional.
  •
  • exclusive,
  • specific,
  • especial,
  • particular.
  •
  • continue,
  • intermittent.
  •infrequent (noun)
  • infrequent.
  •irregular (noun)
  • irregular.
  •unpredictable (noun)
  • unpredictable.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • occasionally,
  • sometimes.
  •
  • undivided,
  • The.
  •
  • fitful,
  • scarce.
  •
  • maybe.
  •
  • on again.

Paraphrases for Occasional:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    sporadic, casual, episodic.
  • Proper noun, singular
    casual, episodic.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    infrequent, sometimes, non-daily, one-off, isolated, circumstantial, odd, intermittent, adventitious, punctual, respite, fortuitous, causal, discretionary, discretional, seasonal, random, ad-hoc, transient, piecemeal, marginal, irregular, indefinite, accidental, individual, few.
  • Proper noun, singular
    accidental.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    incidental, leave, certain.

Antonyms for Occasional:

• adj.

  • casual
    painstaking, premeditated, deliberate, planned.
  • episodic
    lasting, unbroken, connected, permanent.
  • few
    many, much.
  • incidental
    basic, fundamental, important, essential, vital.
  • infrequent
    common, often.
  • intermittent
    continuing, continual, perpetual.
  • irregular
    methodical, conventional, systematic.
  • occasional
    constant, regular, steady, frequent, usual.
  • odd
    similar, like, unvaried.
  • periodic
    sporadic, irregular, variable.
  • Other antonyms:
    even, unchanging, equable, predictable, changeless, unvarying, unrelenting, stable, unwavering, daily, uniform, periodic, routine, orderly, stationary.

Occasional Sentence Examples:

• We may have exchanged an occasional remark about it taking all sorts to make a world, but nothing more.

• The ground was not open enough for artillery, except down the few roads, and across an occasional clearing.