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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/#m1)

2) Happening with long gaps in between: infrequent buses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «infrequent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infrequent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.