Synonyms for occasion
- incident
- moment
- opening
- opportunity
- possibility
- time
- break
- convenience
- demand
- excuse
- instant
- need
- occurrence
- season
- shot
- show
- use
Antonyms for occasion
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR OCCASION
I had a warm regard for your father, and shall be glad to help your mother if there is any occasion.
To Alec Haskell I shall in this discourse again have occasion to refer.
I never had occasion to check or to use an angry word to one of my party.
It must have been written for the occasion, for the sentiment of it was in accordance with the prayer.
We are not now about to give him any idle panegyric on the occasion.
I beg your pardon, dear Madam, and your patience with me on such an occasion as this.
You shall all have your directions in writing, if there be occasion.
I am afraid you will condemn my warmth: But does not the occasion require it?
The young Tory's first election address was delivered upon this occasion.
I went with a very cheerful aspect: but had occasion soon to change it.
WORD ORIGIN
late 14c., "opportunity; grounds for action, state of affairs that makes something else possible; a happening, occurrence," from Old French ochaison, ocasion "cause, reason, excuse, pretext; opportunity" (13c.) or directly from Latin occasionem (nominative occasio) "opportunity, appropriate time," in Late Latin "cause," from occasum, occasus, past participle of occidere "fall down, go down," from ob "down, away" (see ob-) + cadere "to fall" (see case (n.1)). The notion is of a "falling together," or juncture, of circumstances.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR OCCASION
accident
nounchance eventbegan
verbstart- activate
- actualize
- break ground
- break the ice
- bring about
- bring to pass
- cause
- commence
- create
- do
- drive
- effect
- embark on
- enter on
- enter upon
- establish
- eventuate
- found
- generate
- get going
- give birth to
- give impulse
- go ahead
- go into
- impel
- inaugurate
- induce
- initiate
- instigate
- institute
- introduce
- launch
- lay foundation for
- lead
- make
- make active
- motivate
- mount
- occasion
- open
- originate
- plunge into
- prepare
- produce
- set about
- set in motion
- set up
- trigger
- undertake
beget
verbcreate, bearbegin
verbstart- activate
- actualize
- break ground
- break the ice
- bring about
- bring to pass
- cause
- commence
- create
- do
- drive
- effect
- embark on
- enter on
- enter upon
- establish
- eventuate
- found
- generate
- get going
- give birth to
- give impulse
- go ahead
- go into
- impel
- inaugurate
- induce
- initiate
- instigate
- institute
- introduce
- launch
- lay foundation for
- lead
- make
- make active
- motivate
- mount
- occasion
- open
- originate
- plunge into
- prepare
- produce
- set about
- set in motion
- set up
- trigger
- undertake
begins
verbstart- activate
- actualize
- break ground
- break the ice
- bring about
- bring to pass
- cause
- commence
- create
- do
- drive
- effect
- embark on
- enter on
- enter upon
- establish
- eventuate
- found
- generate
- get going
- give birth to
- give impulse
- go ahead
- go into
- impel
- inaugurate
- induce
- initiate
- instigate
- institute
- introduce
- launch
- lay foundation for
- lead
- make
- make active
- motivate
- mount
- occasion
- open
- originate
- plunge into
- prepare
- produce
- set about
- set in motion
- set up
- trigger
- undertake