Adjective: frequent
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | frequenter |
| Superlative | frequentest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more frequent |
| Superlative | most frequent |
Sample Sentences
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I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.
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There are frequent trains to the beach available.
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I am a frequent visitor to that city.
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During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...] [1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:]
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Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...] [1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LV.2, page 31:]
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[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. [1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 59:]
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'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate. [1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):]
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'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci. [1626, Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor:]
Adjectives inflected like frequent
wholsom,
seldom,
scared,
solemn,
silent,
beloved,
uptight,
perfect,
useless,
up-tight,
selfish,
distinct,
discreet,
Dutch,
reckless,
bumfuck,
worthless,
slender,
faithfull,
shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to cram together”). See: Latin Adjectives '
frequens'.
Verbs referencing "frequent"
Finnish Adjectives
frekventti.