often

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Rarely & infrequently
(every) now and then/againidiom
blue moon
day
episodic
ever and anon
few
fit
isolated
it's not every day (that)...idiom
like ships that pass in the nightidiom
occasion
occasional
odd
once-in-a-lifetime
one and doneidiom
one-off
one-shot
one-time
stop-go
ultra-rare

seldom | American Dictionary

seldom
adverb
us/ˈsel·dəm/
almost never:
I seldom drive my car into the city.

Examples of seldom

seldom
These truly embody 'vox populi', the seldom-heard voice of the ordinary woman and man.
But the idea of an ageless self is also supported by developmental psychological theories, where the development after adolescence is seldom considered.
Because the cat has large receptive fields, these residual movements will seldom be consequential for visual physiology.
In fact, it is difficult to run one's eye over these listings without realizing - and regretting - how seldom they have been put to use.
Unlike the introductory movement, environmental recordings are seldom perceived, and the whole movement is endowed with a distinctly abstract character.
The correlation between social problem and administrative remedy is seldom exact.
Such forms of fiction seldom reflect current political discussion.
She is spatially bound in her leisure activities and seldom ventures to unfamiliar places by herself.
It is worth mentioning that direct sales of country food were seldom reported by the informants.
Because of the dappled nature of the universe, nomological machines are seldom just found.
As for the prospects, they are also projecting an integrated identity; they seldom behave like customers in the interactions.
Seldom can both goals be congruent unless the ecologies are made more advantageous to the relevant populations.
So we have dating methods and chronologies, yet we seldom ask what time is.
Yet, experimental results and real-life observations seldom support that expectation.
Hunters and travellers passing through, but seldom remaining long in the districts, very naturally associated such species with the fly.
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