INFREQUENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infrequently mean? 

• INFREQUENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb INFREQUENTLY has 1 sense:

1. not many times

  Familiarity information: INFREQUENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFREQUENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not many times

Context example:

in your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room

Antonym:

frequently (many times at short intervals)

Pertainym:

infrequent (not frequent; not occurring regularly or at short intervals)

 Context examples 

Melanocytic neoplasms that occasionally but infrequently exhibit malignant characteristics fall into this category.

(Mouse Melanocytic Neoplasms of Uncertain Malignant Potential, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Infrequently, it may arise outside the usual distribution of the sympathetic and parasympathetic paraganglia.

(Paraganglioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Infrequently, patients may present with pain and facial palsy.

(Pleomorphic Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Directly linked to tumorigenesis, telomerase is expressed in the majority of human cancer cells but is infrequently expressed in normal cells.

(hTERT I540/R572Y/D988Y Multipeptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Individuals who burn infrequently and tan readily.

(Fitzpatrick Skin Type III, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Despite the morphologic evidence of invasion, appendiceal carcinoid tumors only infrequently produce lymph node or distant metastases.

(Appendix Enterochromaffin Cell Serotonin-Producing Neuroendocrine Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

In the majority of cases, the neoplastic epithelioid cells lack significant cytologic atypia; mitotic figures are infrequently seen.

(Epithelioid Mesothelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A neuroglial cell of ectodermic origin having long, thin, infrequently branched cytoplasmic processes containing numerous fibrillar structures.

(Fibrous Astrocyte, NCI Thesaurus)