Occasionally vs Frequent - What's the difference?
occasionally | frequent |
From time to time; now and then; once in a while; irregularly; at infrequent intervals.
*1592 , Gabriel Harvey, "Fovre Letters", Miscellaneous Tracts , page 56
*:Were nothing els di?cour?ively in?erted (as ?ome little el?e occa?ionally pre?ented it ?elfe), what paper more currently fit for the bare?t mechanicall u?es,...
*1619 , John Richardson, John Toland, The canon of the New Testament Vindicated , page 30
*:I think it is plain, that Origen'', whatever Character he may have occa?ionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the ''Canon ...
*1639 , Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the Five Books of Moses, the Book of the Psalmes and the Song of Songs , page 177.
*:God ?etteth no houres for the morning or evening ?acrifice because they may occa?ionally be changed.
* 1855 , Horace Mann, "On the Statistical Position of Religious Bodies in England and Wales," Journal of the Statistical Society of London , vol. 18, no. 2, p. 152,
* 1978 , Stephen R. Graubard, "Twenty Years of 'Daedalus'," Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , vol. 32, no. 3, p. 18,
* 2007 , Matt Gouras/AP, "
Done or occurring often; common.
Occurring at short intervals.
* Byron
Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) Often or commonly reported.
* Massinger
As an adverb occasionally
is from time to time; now and then; once in a while; irregularly; at infrequent intervals.As an adjective frequent is
frequent; often.occasionally
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally .
- The journal, more occasionally , has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.
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- Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.
frequent
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) frequent, from (etyl) .Schwartzman, The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in EnglishAdjective
- I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.
- There are frequent trains to the beach available.
- I am a frequent visitor to that city.
- frequent feudal towers
- He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government.
- 'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.
- 'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.