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unfrequent

unfrequent adjective: not frequent; not common; not happening often; infrequent.

Adjective

unfrequent (comparative more unfrequent, superlative most unfrequent)

  1. (archaic) Not frequent; not common; not happening often; infrequent.
    • He was labouring under a pleurisy, which is not unfrequent in the mountainous region, at this season.1827, George Tucker, A Voyage to the Moon
    • It was no unfrequent event, however, for vessels to be lost.1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes
    Synonyms:
    rare, scarce, uncommon

Verb

unfrequent (third-person singular simple present unfrequents, present participle unfrequenting, simple past and past participle unfrequented)

  1. (transitive) To stop frequenting; cease to frequent.

unfrequent meaning in Urdu

Synonyms of unfrequent

Forms of unfrequent

Adjective
comparativemore unfrequent
superlativemost unfrequent
Verb
third-person singular presentunfrequents
present participleunfrequenting
past participleunfrequented
pastunfrequented

Origin of unfrequent

From un- (not) + frequent.

From un- (reversive prefix) + frequent.

Words formed from unfrequent

Questions about unfrequent

What does unfrequent mean?
Unfrequent means not frequent; not common; not happening often; infrequent.
What is unfrequent in Urdu?
Unfrequent in Urdu is نادر. See Unfrequent meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is unfrequent?
Unfrequent can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unfrequent in the dictionary

  1. unfreighted
  2. unfrenchified
  3. unfrenetic
  4. unfrenzied
  5. unfrequency
  6. unfrequent
  7. unfrequented
  8. unfrequentedness
  9. unfrequenting
  10. unfrequently
  11. unfrequents

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unfrequent (page history and authors); unfrequent (Urdu 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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