Frequent

/ˈfɹiː.kwənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Done or occurring often; common..

Definitions by Sense

1. Done or occurring often; common.
2. Occurring at short intervals.
3. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
4. (obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.
5. (obsolete) Often or commonly reported.
6. (transitive) To visit often.

Example Sentences

I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.

There are frequent trains to the beach available.

I am a frequent visitor to that city.

During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]

Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...]

[E]very Man thinks he has laid in a ſufficient Stock of Merit, and my pretend to any Employment, provided he has been loud and frequent in declaring himſelf hearty for the Government.

'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.

'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.

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Word Forms

• more frequent
• frequenter
• most frequent
• frequentest
• frequents
• frequenting
• frequented

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