infrequent
infrequent adjective: not frequent; not happening frequently.
Adjective
infrequent (comparative more infrequent, superlative most infrequent)
- Not frequent; not happening frequently.
- Such was the station provided for the infrequent services of 1852, when suburban traffic was unheard of, and Hornsey, Colney Hatch & Southgate, Barnet, and Potters Bar were the only intermediate stations on the 17¾ miles between London and Hatfield.1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 650-651
- Synonyms:
- scarce, uncommon, unfrequent
infrequent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
infrequent in Hindi
- Not frequent; not happening frequently
- विरल viral
infrequent in Tamil
- அடிக்கடி நிகழாத, அரிதான
infrequent in Urdu
- کم, خال خال, نایاب, نادر, شاذ
infrequent in Bengali
- বিরল, কদাচিৎ ঘটে এমন, অনিয়মিত
More languagesFewer languages
- infrequent in Malayalam
- അപൂർവ്വമായ, വല്ലപ്പോഴും സംഭവിക്കുന്ന, വല്ലപ്പോഴും മാത്രം ഉണ്ടാകുന്ന, വിഷമ
- infrequent in Kannada
- ವಿರಳ, ಅಪರೂಪ, ಪದೇ ಪದೇ ಆಗದ, ಮೇಲಿಂದ ಮೇಲೆ ನಡೆಯದ
Examples of infrequent in a sentence
- Infrequent stooling in the first month of life is almost always due to insufficient intake of milk.
- And there are beautiful but infrequent apparitions of Mars, one of which will peak this month.
- Therefore, he was usually unable to capitalize on their infrequent military victories.
Synonyms of infrequent
Forms of infrequent
| comparative | more infrequent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most infrequent |
Origin of infrequent
From in- + frequent.
Words formed from infrequent
Questions about infrequent
- What does infrequent mean?
- Infrequent means not frequent; not happening frequently.
- What is infrequent in Hindi?
- Infrequent in Hindi is विरल (viral). See Infrequent meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is infrequent?
- Infrequent is an adjective.
Words near infrequent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: infrequent (page history and authors); infrequent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); infrequent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Infrequent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); infrequent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); infrequent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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