Synonyms and Antonyms of occasional
1
lacking in steadiness or regularity of occurrence
- the weekend forecast is for occasional showers
aperiodic, casual, catchy, choppy, discontinuous, episodic (also episodical), erratic, fitful, intermittent, irregular, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, unsteady
convulsive, sudden, violent
broken, disconnected, fragmentary, interrupted
aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, odd, random, scattered, slapdash, stray
capricious, changeful, changing, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, varying, wavering
changeable, fickle, variable, volatile
changeless, equable, even, stable, stationary, uniform
unchanging, unvarying, unwavering
methodical (also methodic), orderly, systematic
unrelenting, unremitting
2
not often occurring or repeated
- an occasional mechanical problem with our car, but nothing serious
scarce, scattered, uncommon, unique, unusual
choppy, discontinuous, erratic, fitful, intermittent, irregular, spasmodic, spotty, unsteady
