oftenadverb
uk/ˈɒf.ən//ˈɒf.tən/us/ˈɑːf.ən//ˈɑːf.tən/A1 many times:
I often see him in the garden.
How often do you wash your hair?
I don't often drink beer.
It's not often that you meet someone who you're instantly attracted to.
I don't see my parents as often as I'd like to.
Christmas is often mild in this country.
Synonym
frequently
More examples
- I don't cook meat very often.
- It's often quicker to travel across country and avoid the major roads altogether.
- She wrote less and less often, and eventually she stopped altogether.
- They had a passionate and often stormy relationship.
- I often get hungry towards the middle of the morning.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Frequency & regularity - general words
- (as) regular as clockwork idiom
- -ly
- clockwork
- erratic
- fitful
- frequency
- frequent
- frequently
- irregular
- many
- many a time idiom
- many's the idiom
- more
- on and off idiom
- on-again, off-again
- on-off
- periodic
- periodically
- regular
- religiously
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Idiom(s)
more often than not