infrequent
adjective /ɪnˈfriːkwənt/
/ɪnˈfriːkwənt/
- not happening often synonym rare
- her infrequent visits home
- Muggings are relatively infrequent in this area.
Extra Examples- American trains are infrequent and the network is patchy.
- Calls for a return to traditional values are not infrequent.
- Disagreements are relatively infrequent.
- Examinations need to be carried out only at infrequent intervals.
- Victoria pined and cherished his infrequent postcards.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘little used, seldom done, uncommon’): from Latin infrequent- from in- ‘not’ + frequent- ‘frequent’.