infrequent

«infrequent» in Mova's school dictionary: Not happening often; rare — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

1) Not happening often; rare. tree →

2) Happening with long gaps in between: infrequent buses. tree →

sense 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».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «infrequent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.