at times
at times prepositional phrase: on occasion, sometimes.
Prepositional phrase
- On occasion, sometimes.
- I feel lonely at times, but then somebody phones, or calls round, and I cheer up again.
- She is popular with passengers as an all-weather vessel, but rather the reverse with yachtsmen as she has at times proved somewhat unwieldy, and certainly takes up a good deal of space in the narrow channels.1956 February, R. C. Riley, “The Lymington Railway and Isle of Wight Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 82
- Synonyms:
- at turns, in times, occasionally
at times meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
at times in Hindi
- at times, sometimes, from time to time, not often, occasionally
- गाहे-बगाहे gāhe-bagāhe
at times in Tamil
- சில நேரம், சில சமயம், அவ்வப்பொழுது
at times in Urdu
- at times, sometimes, from time to time, not often, occasionally
- گاہے بہ گاہے gāhe ba-gāhe
at times in Kannada
- ಆಗಾಗ
More languagesFewer languages
- at times in Arabic
- أَحْيَانًا ʔaḥyānan
Synonyms of at times
Questions about at times
- What does at times mean?
- At times means on occasion, sometimes.
- What is at times in Hindi?
- At times in Hindi is गाहे-बगाहे (gāhe-bagāhe). See At times meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is at times?
- At times is a prepositional phrase.
Words near at times in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: at times (page history and authors); गाहे-बगाहे (Hindi) (page history and authors); at times (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); گاہے بہ گاہے (Urdu) (page history and authors); at times (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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