infrequent

Modifies a noun

• occurrence: This is outside the control of the Central Office of Information, but should be an infrequent occurrence.
• seizure: The technique is of limited use in a patient who has infrequent seizures.
• interval: He attends District Council meetings, held at infrequent intervals.
• visitor: GROUP ' C ' Are you ( 1 ) An infrequent visitor to Mendip?
• traveler: Incentive prizes of free travel cards will encourage frequent travelers to participate more than infrequent travelers.
• occasion: Special Occasions Only Proof sets continued to be issued, on very special and infrequent occasions, from 1826 to 1953.

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: Latin America is a relatively infrequent destination for British travelers.
• fairly: Here formations are fairly infrequent, apart from large stal flows cascading down from the old upper series passages.
• too: The problem of asking for the same result several times comes up not too infrequent in calculations.
• rather: In 2006 this was still in ( rather infrequent ) use.
• very: Mr E's seizures appear to have been very infrequent.
• so: But it's so infrequent that you get a real gem.

Infinitive complement

avoid: Ensure that vertical and horizontal scales are numbered at intervals sufficiently infrequent to avoid cluttering and sufficiently often to avoid confusion.

Used with adjective complement

become: Times change and work changes so my visits became infrequent.

Preposition: in

area: There has been the odd sighting of whale sharks but sightings of pelagic are infrequent in this area.