infrequent
pronunciation
How to pronounce infrequent in British English:
UK [ɪnˈfri:kwənt]
How to pronounce infrequent in American English:
US [ɪnˈfrikwənt]
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- Adjective:
- not frequent; not occurring regularly or at short intervals
Word Origin
- infrequent (adj.)
- 1530s, from Latin infrequentem (nominative infrequens) "occurring seldom, unusual; not crowded, absent," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + frequens (see frequent). Related: Infrequently.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Racial violence is still infrequent . But milder forms of prejudice are flourishing .
- 2. Official records dating back to 1891 suggest that strikes have never been as infrequent as they are today .
- 3. Six asian markets have dividend yields in excess of local sovereign bond yields , an infrequent phenomenon that shows a historically high aversion to riskier assets such as equities , says markus rosgen , head of asia-pacific equity strategy for citi .
- 4. They were fed up with phone calls and skype and my infrequent visits to petrozavodsk , my hometown near the finnish border .
- 5. A few relatively infrequent situations also call for a semicolon .