Infrequent
adjective
Not happening often.
The bus service is infrequent and unreliable.
Often appears as...
- infrequent visitor
- infrequent use
adjective
Not happening often.
The bus service is infrequent and unreliable.
Often appears as...
- infrequent visitor
- infrequent use
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Pro Tip 1/3Frequency Context
Use 'infrequent' for services or events where regular occurrences are expected but do not happen often.
Her visits to our home are infrequent, maybe once a year.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
In some contexts, 'infrequent' may imply a negative aspect, suggesting that more frequency would be better.
I've noticed infrequent communication can lead to misunderstandings.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Cases
'Infrequent' can be neutral, without implying whether its rarity is good or bad.
Infrequent rain showers characterize the desert climate.
Pro Tip 1/3Frequency Context
Use 'infrequent' for services or events where regular occurrences are expected but do not happen often.
Her visits to our home are infrequent, maybe once a year.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
In some contexts, 'infrequent' may imply a negative aspect, suggesting that more frequency would be better.
I've noticed infrequent communication can lead to misunderstandings.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Cases
'Infrequent' can be neutral, without implying whether its rarity is good or bad.
Infrequent rain showers characterize the desert climate.
Pro Tip 1/3Frequency Context
Use 'infrequent' for services or events where regular occurrences are expected but do not happen often.
Her visits to our home are infrequent, maybe once a year.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
In some contexts, 'infrequent' may imply a negative aspect, suggesting that more frequency would be better.
I've noticed infrequent communication can lead to misunderstandings.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Cases
'Infrequent' can be neutral, without implying whether its rarity is good or bad.
Infrequent rain showers characterize the desert climate.
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one of the world's most boring experiments. All the participants saw were a series of faces on the screen, one after another. They pressed the button every time they saw the face. That was pretty much it. Well, one trick was that sometimes, the face would be upside down, and it would happen very infrequently.
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Risk Takers: Challenging...
And it's not infrequent that we're actually taking extreme risk getting up into these places to try to push back on our ignorance, to try to push back on this yearning for knowledge. And ultimately for me personally that's where it all is. It's about self-actualization and it's about acquiring wisdom.
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The terrors of sleep...
sleep paralysis regularly and it may be linked to sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, many who experience an episode of sleep paralysis do so infrequently, perhaps only once in a lifetime. So you can rest easy, knowing that an evil entity is not trying to haunt, possess, strangle, or suffocate you.
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Why we make bad...
The reason words with R in the third place come slowly to your mind isn't because they're improbable, unlikely or infrequent. It's because the mind recalls words by their first letter. You kind of shout out the sound, S -- and the word comes. It's like the dictionary;
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Who IS Sherlock Holmes -...
no one says, "Elementary, my dear Watson," and the detective and his sidekick live apart for much of the time. Moriarty, the grand villain, only appears in two stories, the detective's drug use is infrequent after the first two novels,
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The twisting tale of DNA...
Some of those genes have quite different sequences of nucleotides than yours, and some are similar to yours. Though it happens infrequently, our own nucleotide sequences can change as the result of spontaneous or environmental damage
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Inside an Ebola Clinic...
is that it would be rare for them to have a viable baby we delivered her her baby she had a lot of bleeding and she didn't make it the baby didn't make it days like that they come they're not infrequent what I'm
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The Water Crisis PIPE...
fill up in one day of heavy rain it's a gift from the sky can't wait for it to rain now tracking rainfall over time is essential understanding drought patterns but with something as infrequent as a mega
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What we can do to die...
that happens far too infrequently. And it's a conversation that had led us to crisis, to the biggest threat to the American way of life today, which is health care expenditures. So what do we know?
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Can you be awake and...
They saw that, during the first night, participants experience deeper sleep in their right hemisphere and lighter sleep in their left. When exposed to infrequent sounds,
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How to tame your...
one of the world's most boring experiments. All the participants saw were a series of faces on the screen, one after another. They pressed the button every time they saw the face. That was pretty much it. Well, one trick was that sometimes, the face would be upside down, and it would happen very infrequently.
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Risk Takers: Challenging...
And it's not infrequent that we're actually taking extreme risk getting up into these places to try to push back on our ignorance, to try to push back on this yearning for knowledge. And ultimately for me personally that's where it all is. It's about self-actualization and it's about acquiring wisdom.
Video examples
The terrors of sleep...
sleep paralysis regularly and it may be linked to sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, many who experience an episode of sleep paralysis do so infrequently, perhaps only once in a lifetime. So you can rest easy, knowing that an evil entity is not trying to haunt, possess, strangle, or suffocate you.
Video examples
Why we make bad...
The reason words with R in the third place come slowly to your mind isn't because they're improbable, unlikely or infrequent. It's because the mind recalls words by their first letter. You kind of shout out the sound, S -- and the word comes. It's like the dictionary;
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Who IS Sherlock Holmes -...
no one says, "Elementary, my dear Watson," and the detective and his sidekick live apart for much of the time. Moriarty, the grand villain, only appears in two stories, the detective's drug use is infrequent after the first two novels,
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The twisting tale of DNA...
Some of those genes have quite different sequences of nucleotides than yours, and some are similar to yours. Though it happens infrequently, our own nucleotide sequences can change as the result of spontaneous or environmental damage
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Inside an Ebola Clinic...
is that it would be rare for them to have a viable baby we delivered her her baby she had a lot of bleeding and she didn't make it the baby didn't make it days like that they come they're not infrequent what I'm
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The Water Crisis PIPE...
fill up in one day of heavy rain it's a gift from the sky can't wait for it to rain now tracking rainfall over time is essential understanding drought patterns but with something as infrequent as a mega
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What we can do to die...
that happens far too infrequently. And it's a conversation that had led us to crisis, to the biggest threat to the American way of life today, which is health care expenditures. So what do we know?
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Can you be awake and...
They saw that, during the first night, participants experience deeper sleep in their right hemisphere and lighter sleep in their left. When exposed to infrequent sounds,
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Jeh Johnson
American Public Servant
We continually evaluate the world situation, and we not infrequently make changes to aviation security. We either step it up or we feel sometimes we're in a position to dial it back, and so this is something that happens periodically, and people should not overreact to it or over-speculate about what's going on.
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Norman Lear
American Producer
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
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John de Lancie
American Actor
I live in such a free-lance world and I've done 'Trek' so infrequently, when you really think about it, that continuity really isn't an issue to me. I live in a much more undetermined, gypsylike world.
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Drew Pinsky
American Celebrity
I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.
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Mark Goulston
American Psychologist
Forget the empty platitudes; your star employee is not a 'godsend.' They are a person deserving of your not infrequent acknowledgment and worthy of appreciation and respect.
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Charles Edward Merriam
American Educator
It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.
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Alice Walker
American Author
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
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Claire Danes
American Actress
Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.
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Paul P. Harris
American Lawyer
Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
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Christopher Guest
British Director
It's infrequent that that happens - great performances and magical cinematography and great direction.
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Jeh Johnson
American Public Servant
We continually evaluate the world situation, and we not infrequently make changes to aviation security. We either step it up or we feel sometimes we're in a position to dial it back, and so this is something that happens periodically, and people should not overreact to it or over-speculate about what's going on.
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Norman Lear
American Producer
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
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John de Lancie
American Actor
I live in such a free-lance world and I've done 'Trek' so infrequently, when you really think about it, that continuity really isn't an issue to me. I live in a much more undetermined, gypsylike world.
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Drew Pinsky
American Celebrity
I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.
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Mark Goulston
American Psychologist
Forget the empty platitudes; your star employee is not a 'godsend.' They are a person deserving of your not infrequent acknowledgment and worthy of appreciation and respect.
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Charles Edward Merriam
American Educator
It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.
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Alice Walker
American Author
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
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Claire Danes
American Actress
Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.
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Paul P. Harris
American Lawyer
Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.
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Christopher Guest
British Director
It's infrequent that that happens - great performances and magical cinematography and great direction.
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