| 单词 | infrequent |
| 释义 | infrequent (once / 1435 pages) adj Something that's infrequent doesn't happen very often. Your family might take infrequent trips to Disney World, traveling there every two or three years. Things that are infrequent are rare or uncommon. You'd probably be glad to have infrequent run-ins with mean dogs or ugly insects, but disappointed to get infrequent phone calls from your best friend. The adjective infrequent comes from the prefix in, which here means "not," and frequent, or "often," which is rooted in the Latin word frequentem, "crowded or repeated." WORD FAMILYinfrequent: infrequency, infrequenter, infrequently+/frequence: frequences/frequency: frequencies/frequent: frequence, frequency, frequentative, frequented, frequenter, frequenting, frequently, frequents, infrequent/frequentative: frequentatives/frequented: unfrequented/frequenter: frequenters/unfrequented: unfrequentedest, unfrequentedly USAGE EXAMPLESIn the second experiment, people were asked to count the instances of an infrequent 2-kilohertz tone amid a series of 1-kilohertz tones. Time(Dec 05, 2016) The mentions are infrequent, but they give some clue as to how he views the Asian nations. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) But Trump’s decision to have infrequent briefings could raise eyebrows. Seattle Times(Nov 29, 2016) adj not frequent; not occurring regularly or at short intervals infrequent outbursts of temper Syn|Ant sporadic recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances occasionaloccurring from time to time rarerecurring only at long intervals frequent coming at short intervals or habitually dominant, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, rifemost frequent or common regular, steadyrelating to a person who does something regularly |
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