infrequent
adjective
[ ɪnˈfriːkw(ə)nt ]
• not occurring often; rare.
• "her visits were so infrequent"
Similar:
rare,
uncommon,
unusual,
exceptional,
few and far between,
few,
like gold dust,
as scarce as hens' teeth,
unaccustomed,
unwonted,
isolated,
scarce,
thin on the ground,
scattered,
sporadic,
irregular,
intermittent,
fitful,
out of the common,
sometime,
once in a blue moon,
seldom,
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘little used, seldom done, uncommon’): from Latin infrequent- from in- ‘not’ + frequent- ‘frequent’.
