frequent

1. 1.

   coming at short intervals or habitually

   “a frequent guest”

   “frequent complaints”

   Antonymsinfrequent

   Similarprevailingregular
2. 2.

   frequently encountered

   “a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'”

   Similarcommon

Other forms of frequent

past tense

frequented·

present participle

frequenting·

third person

frequents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about frequent

What does frequent mean?

frequent means "do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frequent?

frequent has 2 syllables: freq-uent. The stress falls on "freq". In IPA it is /ˈfɹikwənt/.

What is another word for frequent?

Close synonyms include patronize, patronise, shop, shop at, buy at. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of frequent?

The recorded antonyms are infrequent.

Is frequent a common word?

frequent is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with frequent?

1 word rhymes with frequent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.