infrequent

adjective (infrequent, more infrequent); adverb «infrequently»

«infrequent» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

Not happening often; rare. tree →
Happening with long gaps in between: infrequent buses. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life: infrequent buses in the countryside, infrequent visits from relatives abroad. In maths and data lessons, infrequent values appear few times in a tally or frequency table. In science, infrequent events like eclipses are worth waiting for. Phrases: infrequent visits, infrequent buses, an infrequent visitor.

Examples

Buses to our village are infrequent, only two a day. tree →
Total eclipses are infrequent in any one place. tree →
Our cousin from Canada is an infrequent visitor. tree →
Snow is infrequent in Sydney. tree →
In the tally chart, red cars were infrequent. tree →
His infrequent mistakes were easy to fix. tree →

Note

Opposite: «frequent» (often). In maths, frequency means how many times something happens; an infrequent item has a low frequency. Similar: «rare», «occasional».

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «infrequent» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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