Definition for Seldom:

• Rarely; not often; at long intervals of time.

Synonyms for Seldom:

• adj.

  •few (adjective)
  • scarcely any,
  • some,
  • Unfrequent,
  • piddling,
  • middling,
  • meager,
  • widely spaced,
  • semioccasional,
  • trifling,
  • insufficient,
  • not too many,
  • not many,
  • inconsiderable.
  •rare (adjective)
  • un likely,
  • most attenuated,
  • in-conceivable,
  • sub tile,
  • un-likeliest,
  • un-wonted,
  • un likeliest,
  • more attenuate,
  • subtiler,
  • un-likelier,
  • un-likely,
  • out ordinary,
  • un imaginable,
  • more attenuated,
  • most attenuate,
  • un-imaginable,
  • un likelier,
  • sub tiler,
  • more recherche,
  • most recherche,
  • un-thinkable,
  • in conceivable,
  • out of ordinary,
  • un wonted,
  • out the ordinary,
  • un thinkable,
  • sub-tiler,
  • sub-tile,
  • subtilest,
  • extra-ordinary.
  •scarce (adjective)
  • most shortened,
  • most truncated,
  • at premium,
  • more truncated,
  • more shortened.
  •sporadic (adjective)
  • more on again off again,
  • fits starts,
  • bits pieces,
  • most on-again-off-again,
  • more on-again-off-again,
  • most on again off again.
  •standout (adjective)
  • pre eminent,
  • out standing.
  •uncommon (adjective)
  • un familiar,
  • un-commoner,
  • un-familiar,
  • out way,
  • un commonest,
  • out the way,
  • un-customary,
  • un commoner,
  • un-conventional,
  • out of way,
  • sur-prising,
  • more outre,
  • un-commonest,
  • most uncustomary,
  • un-common,
  • un customary,
  • sur prising,
  • un-accustomed,
  • most outre,
  • un common,
  • more uncustomary,
  • un conventional,
  • un accustomed.

• adv

  •hardly (adverb)
  • no more than,
  • by no means,
  • not a bit,
  • not noticeably,
  • not by much,
  • almost not,
  • not likely,
  • pretty near,
  • not markedly,
  • no way,
  • faintly,
  • not often,
  • not at all,
  • not notably,
  • Scantly,
  • not much,
  • detectably,
  • by a hair,
  • only just,
  • not measurably,
  • perceptibly.

• adv.

  •hardly (adverb)
  • not quite,
  • with trouble,
  • sparsely.
  •rarely (adverb)
  • un-frequently,
  • un-usually,
  • un-often,
  • finely,
  • un usually,
  • singularly,
  • un often,
  • extra ordinarily,
  • on rare occasions,
  • un frequently,
  • extraordinarily,
  • extra-ordinarily.
  •uncommonly (adverb)
  • un-commonly,
  • un commonly.

• n.

  •
  • few and far between,
  • rarity.
  •
  • once in a blue moon,
  • usual.
  •rarely (noun)
  • not in a month of Sundays,
  • not very often,
  • from time to time,
  • irregularly,
  • in a few cases,
  • when the spirit moves,
  • when occasion permits,
  • on divers occasions,
  • inhabitually,
  • hardly ever,
  • at times,
  • whimsically,
  • once in a lifetime,
  • a few times,
  • on and off.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • not always,
  • once in a while,
  • not usually,
  • few.
  •
  • sporadically.
  •at times
  • sometimes.
  •from time to time
  • every now and then.
  •rarely
  • uncommonly,
  • blue.

Paraphrases for Seldom:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    rarely.
  • Adverb
    rarely.

• Independent

  • Noun, plural
    cases.
  • Adverb
    sparsely, often, hardly, scarcely, frequently, occasionally, little, rare, commonly, less, barely, thinly, sometimes, usually, poorly.

• Other Related

  • Adverb
    infrequently.

Antonyms for Seldom:

• adv.

  • infrequently
    regularly, often, usually, frequently.
  • Other antonyms:
    invariably, ordinarily, continuously, customarily, generally, unceasingly, routinely, perennially, habitually, everlastingly, chronically, eternally, recurrently, evermore, endlessly.

Seldom Sentence Examples:

• It was seldom he could leave home, not very often, indeed, that he had time to see much of his little girl, even at home.

• She had seldom broken down like this.

Homophones for Seldom:

• saltine, soliton, scale down, schooltime, schleiden, salt mine, slowdown, saltation, sultana, Saladin, slide down, swill down, skeleton, solution, slow down, salutation, sultan.