Definition of infrequent
1 : seldom happening or occurring : rare
2 : placed or occurring at wide intervals in space or time a slope dotted with infrequent pines infrequent visits
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Examples of infrequent in a Sentence
We made infrequent stops along the way.
a shut-in who made infrequent trips to the store
Recent Examples of infrequent from the Web
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My husband has been gone 10 years and big family meals are infrequent in my home.
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This ensemble, one of the city’s best-kept musical secrets, gives infrequent performances of contemporary solo and chamber music in the tower of Riverside Church, free, and played to a very high standard.
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Matria means motherland, and the speaker rebuilds home through her mother's memories and through her own infrequent visits.
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It had been heard before, any time there was a sudden shutdown of the generator, a not infrequent occurrence.
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Philip Stinson, a criminologist at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University who tracks fatal police shootings, said convictions of officers are infrequent.
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And while a few tracks do sound a bit too Bizkit, those missteps are happily infrequent.
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Origin and Etymology of infrequent
Latin infrequent-, infrequens, from in- + frequent-, frequens frequent
First Known Use: 1622
Synonym Discussion of infrequent
INFREQUENT Defined for English Language Learners
infrequent
playDefinition of infrequent for English Language Learners
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: not happening often : not frequent
INFREQUENT Defined for Kids
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