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Frequent vs Wonted - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between frequent and wonted

is that frequent is done or occurring often; common while wonted is usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.

As a verb frequent

is to visit often.

frequent

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) frequent, from (etyl) .Schwartzman, The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English

Adjective

  • Done or occurring often; common.
  • I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.
    There are frequent trains to the beach available.
    I am a frequent visitor to that city.
  • Occurring at short intervals.
  • * Byron
  • frequent feudal towers
  • Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government.
  • (obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • 'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.
  • (obsolete) Often or commonly reported.
  • * Massinger
  • 'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) frequenter, from (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To visit often.
  • I used to frequent that restaurant.
    Derived terms
    * frequenter

    wonted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
  • * 1836 , (Charles Dickens), (Sketches by Boz): illustrative of every-day life and every-day people:
  • Rose Villa has once again resumed its wonted appearance; the dining-room furniture has been replaced; the tables are as nicely polished as formerly; the horsehair chairs are ranged against the wall, as regularly as ever [...]
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
  • * 2008 , William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes:
  • Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.
  • * 2008 (tr.?), (Lodovico Ariosto), (Orlando Furioso):
  • But not with wonted welcome;—inly moved [...]