Word Meanings - FREQUENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers." Byron. 2. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. He has been
Additional info about word: FREQUENT
1. Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers." Byron. 2. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government. Swift. 3. Full; crowded; thronged. 'T is Cæsar's will to have a frequent senate. B. Jonson. 4. Often or commonly reported. 'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci. Massinger.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FREQUENT)
- Common
- Ordinary
- familiar
- habitual
- everyday
- frequent
- coarse
- vulgar
- low
- mean
- universal
- Keep
- Hold
- restrain
- retain
- detain
- guard
- preserve
- suppress
- repress
- conceal
- tend
- support
- maintain
- conduct
- continue
- obey
- haunt
- observe
- celebrate
- protect
- adhere to
- practise
- binder
- sustain
- many
- Numerous
- abundant
- manifold
- divers
- sundry
- multifarious
- Recurrent
- Returning
- periodic
- repeated
- reiterated
- intermittent
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FREQUENT)
- Drop
- betray
- surrender
- abandon
- discontinue
- oppose
- discourage
- weaken
- exhaust
- thwart
- discountenance
- disfavor
- subvert
- suppress
Related words: (words related to FREQUENT)
- FAMILIARLY
In a familiar manner. - PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values - REPEAT
To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn. - MANIFOLD
1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Ps. civ. 24. I know your manifold transgressions. Amos v. 12. 2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - MAINTAIN
by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; - FREQUENTATIVE
Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n. - SUSTAIN
F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - GUARDIAN
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., - GUARDIANSHIP
The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. - MULTIFARIOUS
Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows. (more info) 1. Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold. There is a multifarious artifice - DIVERS
directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various; - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - REPEATEDLY
More than once; again and again; indefinitely. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - GUARDIANESS
A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl. - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - SUNDRY
1. Several; divers; more than one or two; various. "Sundry wines." Chaucer. "Sundry weighty reasons." Shak. With many a sound of sundry melody. Chaucer. Sundry foes the rural realm surround. Dryden. 2. Separate; diverse. Every church almost had - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - OVERFREQUENT
Too frequent. - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - CHAUNTERIE
See CHAUCER - INNUMEROUS
Innumerable. Milton.