different between habitually vs occasionally
habitually
English
Etymology
habitual +? -ly
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??b?tju.?li/, /h??b?t?u.?li/, /h??b?t??li/
Adverb
habitually (not comparable)
- By habit; in a habitual manner.
- Occurring regularly or usually.
Synonyms
- (by habit): ritually
- (occurring regularly or usually): customarily, usually; see also Thesaurus:usually
Related terms
- habitual
Translations
habitually From the web:
- what's habitually mean
- what does habitually resident mean
- what is habitually resident
- what is habitually resident in the uk
- what does habitually truant mean
- what you habitually think
- what do habitually mean
- what is habitually truant
occasionally
English
Etymology
From occasional +? -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ke???n?li/, /??ke??n?li/, /??ke???nli/
- Hyphenation: oc?ca?sion?al?ly, oc?casi?onal?ly, oc?casion?ally
Adverb
occasionally (comparative more occasionally, superlative most occasionally)
- (obsolete) On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way. [15th–18th c.]
- 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...
- 1619, John Richardson, John Toland, The canon of the New Testament Vindicated, page 30
- From time to time; sometimes; at relatively infrequent intervals. [from 15th c.]
- Synonyms: now and then, once in a while
- 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,
- Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
- 1978, Stephen R. Graubard, "Twenty Years of 'Daedalus'," Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 32, no. 3, p. 18,
- The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.
- 2007, Matt Gouras/AP, "Wildfires Rage in Montana," Time, 17 Aug,
- Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.
- depends, QC Gang, How occasionally is ur dog?
- (obsolete) By chance; accidentally. [17th–18th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 161:
- Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 81:
- [N]othing gave him so much joy in conversation, as an opportunity of giving the company to understand, how well he was with persons of distinguished rank and character: he would often (for example) observe, as it were occasionally, that the duke of G— was one of the best natured men in the world […] .
- 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 103:
- I had met Lord Ossory in the forenoon, who had come to town occasionally.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 161:
Synonyms
- on occasion, sometimes, at times, now and then
Translations
occasionally From the web:
- what occasionally mean
- what occasionally always never
- what occasionally visits the town
- what occasionally mean in spanish
- occasionally what does it mean
- occasionally meaning in urdu
- occasionally what tamil meaning
- occasionally what is the opposite
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