infrequently
15
5.0
- adverb
- /ɪnˈfrikwəntli/
- Although earthquakes occur infrequently, a single event can cause catastrophic damage and numerous casualties.
- occurs infrequently
- only infrequently
- very infrequently
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Watch on YouTubeWe may like people we see infrequently or even just in passing.
- We may like people we see infrequently or even just in passing.
- I have done that before very infrequently, and I feel really guilty about it.
- Maybe it's once in your life or infrequently, right?
- Sometimes, infrequently, I say something that I don't mean.
- What they didn't do, except very infrequently, thank heavens, was to change what's called the pattern on the wheels.
- Because if it's the case that you encounter lactose a lot and only infrequently do you then come onto maltose.
- When by and large everybody wanted steak and rich people ate steak frequently and poor people ate steak infrequently.
- But you just got me thinking about how people get taxed to, to like live so infrequently everywhere.
- But Grayrock by itself actually works pretty well with toxic family that you see infrequently with people who ask intrusive questions about your life.
Examples
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And these are two tools which I use infrequently and yet they are used enough to be important to the shop.
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He checks his email infrequently, preferring to focus on other tasks.
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I have done that before very infrequently, and I feel really guilty about it.
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The fact is I go towards these so infrequently, but the only ones that I need to call out.
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We may like people we see infrequently or even just in passing.
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Six of the 10 participants reported they had infrequently or never experienced financial difficulties.
Academic text (2012) -
Father knew nothing of the curse and saw me too infrequently to issue many commands.
Fiction book (1998) -
However, 54 percent said ethics was only sometimes, infrequently, or even never discussed.
Academic text (2008) -
For instance, praise statements occurred infrequently, with an average of 2.4 praise statements per hour.
Academic text (1999) -
Quotas are adjusted infrequently and do not yet fully reflect the advance of emerging market countries.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
464
1.0
Happens sometimes but not often
407
2.0
Happens sometimes but not often
353
1.6
Sometimes, but not very often
310
1.7
It happens sometimes but not very often
259
1.0
Happens sometimes but not very often
228
1.4
Happens sometimes but not regularly
133
2.0
Sometimes, not very often
118
1.7
Not happening or done very often
92
1.6
Happens one or two times, not often
56
2.3
Happens sometimes but not very often
42
2.0
Happens sometimes but not regularly
41
2.4
Happens sometimes, but not very often
15
6.0
In a way that stops and starts at irregular times
13
6.5
Happening only sometimes and not regularly
6
5.0
Happens very rarely
1
7.4
Happens at irregular times, starting and stopping
1
6.0
Does not happen often
1
8.8
Not happening often
Antonyms
How Often
Surface Forms
Morphology
infrequently = infrequent (transparent) = in + frequent + ly
This is a regular adverb formation from the adjective 'infrequent' with no meaning shift.
Etymology
The word infrequently is made from in- meaning 'not' and frequent meaning 'often', the same root you see in frequent and frequency. So infrequently simply means 'not often' or happening only sometimes.