infrequent
There are frequent sailings from Dover.
The two countries have had frequent border disputes.两国经常发生边界纠纷。
All hi-tech weaponry demands frequent servicing to ensure accuracy.所有的高科技武器都需要经常维护以确保精确性。
Car crashes are so frequent that they don't rate a mention in the newspaper unless a lot of people are killed.
He is a frequent flyer.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Frequency & regularity - general words
(as) regular as clockworkidiom
-ly
clockwork
endemically
erratic
erratically
fitful
irregular
irregularly
like clockworkidiom
many
many a timeidiom
on-off
periodic
periodically
prevalence
regularity
religiously
unsynchronized
would
frequent
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /frɪˈkwent/ us /friːˈkwent/
to be in or visit a particular place often: 常去，常到
a bar frequented by criminals犯罪分子经常光顾的酒吧

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Visiting
attraction
beard the lion (in his/her den)idiom
been
call (in) on someone
call by
exchange
happen along/by (somewhere)
haunt
have access to someone/something
homestay
house-to-house
pay
pop
regular
round
stay
stomping ground
stop by (somewhere)
stop in
stop off somewhere

frequent | American Dictionary

frequent
adjective
us/ˈfri·kwənt/
happening often; common:
She makes frequent trips home to Beijing.

frequently

adverbus/ˈfri·kwənt·li/
I frequently disagree with him.
I moved much more frequently than I wanted to.
frequent
verb[ T ]
us/friˈkwent, ˈfri·kwənt/
to often be in or often visit a particular place:
They go to clubs frequented by artists.

frequent | Business English

frequent
adjective
uk /ˈfriːkwənt/us
happening or doing something often:
A frequent criticism of the proposal has been its high cost.
Thomas is a frequent presenter at trade conventions.

frequently

adverb
He meets with his manager less frequently than he would like.

Examples of frequent

frequent
His 2-year-old brother, however, regularly frequented the barn.
The areas selected for sampling were those most frequented by the local residents.
During the hot summer of 2001 bathing facilities and lakes were heavily frequented.
Thus, 94 % of rural men, 80 % of urban married men and 63 % of urban bachelors frequented bars.
The rat burrows were situated adjacent to a heavily frequented road which appears to be the main source of pollution.
Ponds and lakes that are frequented by birds often have an enhanced productivity, based on nutrients from the birds droppings and decaying feathers.
Species that frequented male inflorescences frequented females as well.
They were all frequented by dogs, cats and children.
Nationalists believed that by frequenting the graves of these local heroes and heroines, they would receive new energy and courage to fight colonialism.
Our cities, our health and entertainment resorts, will be frequented by crowds of foreigners curious how a country can live under the siege of sanctions.
Further, such material can not be used in places frequented by crowds, while its transient activity means that material which takes time immediately.
Several geophilous species frequented the cowpea and millet fields.
He frequents the coffee houses near the theatres, reads a few books, and then begins to pontificate.
1 '[...] if it is not frequented by visitors, if it has an air of lonesomeness, a spacious palace often becomes a discredit to its owner'.
Before even beginning their careers, the new students were living the fashionable life, the boys frequenting fencing halls, the girls reading magazines about aristocratic marriages.
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