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# 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

1. Not happening often; rare. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/#m1)
2. Happening with long gaps in between: infrequent buses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/#x1)
- Total eclipses are infrequent in any one place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/#x2)
- Our cousin from Canada is an infrequent visitor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/#x3)
- Snow is infrequent in Sydney. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/#x4)
- In the tally chart, red cars were infrequent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/#x5)
- His infrequent mistakes were easy to fix. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/#x6)

### 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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«infrequent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/infrequent.html) on Mova free.