often happening
common, repeated
Cases of word usage
1) to encourage a person to be cheerful, finish a task etc by making frequent requests etc (chivvy)
2) (illness with) too frequent emptying of the bowels (diarrhoea)
3) frequent occurrence; a rate of occurrence; number of repetitions (in a given time) (frequency)
4) not frequent (infrequent)
5) to cause small but frequent feelings of anger or annoyance (irritate)
6) something done regularly; regular and frequent repetition or exercise to improve ability (practice)
7) to sing (a song), make a musical call, with frequent changes from the normal voice to high (falsetto) notes (like Swiss mountaineers) (yodel)