rarely
539
1.0
- adverb
- /ˈrɛrli/
:
rara vez
- Life rarely turns out how you expect.
- rarely, if ever
- rarely used
- rarely see
People who have been through narcissistic abuse will rarely stand their ground.
- People who have been through narcissistic abuse will rarely stand their ground.
- Most people learn quickly that the reward rarely comes and stop playing.
- This rarely happens, I would say quite rarely happens in prose.
- My next point is growth rarely happens in comfort zones.
- But for most people, that rarely happens, just glimpses.
- So it's this pay to play system that rarely, rarely ever pans out.
- And that's, you know, I rarely see kids playing anymore.
- He has no good answer here because people very rarely lie a little bit.
- Now, to be fair, Trump rarely goes into his bedroom.
- And so they are not, they're rarely classified.
- Yeah, the revenge rarely comes on schedule, does it?
- Mad Mad Men characters rarely say exactly what they're feeling.
- And therefore that's that's just a threshold I rarely, rarely cross.
- Because I, I rarely have that sense.
- So plant foods rarely have high saturated fat.
Examples
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I very, very rarely spend full price on a book.
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Big money rarely comes without strings attached.
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Now, to be fair, Trump rarely goes into his bedroom.
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And he rarely takes my words into account.
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People rarely take advantage of all my services.
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Yet school music programs rarely offer high levels of instrument study to young students.
Academic text (2011) -
Most people learn quickly that the reward rarely comes and stop playing.
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Now she came to his house only rarely, and when they ate together, they ate out.
Fiction book (1990) -
Needless to say, the files I was shown rarely contained useful information.
Academic text (2011) -
Now, to be fair, Trump rarely goes into his bedroom.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
On some occasions but not always
451
1.0
Happens sometimes but not often
438
2.0
Happens sometimes but not often
427
1.6
Sometimes, but not very often
285
1.0
Happens sometimes but not very often
267
1.4
Happens sometimes but not regularly
137
2.0
Sometimes, not very often
122
1.7
Not happening or done very often
88
1.6
Happens one or two times, not often
79
1.7
It happens sometimes but not very often
73
2.0
Happens sometimes but not regularly
54
2.3
Happens sometimes but not very often
19
5.5
Very rare and not happening often
16
5.0
Happening only sometimes
6
5.0
Happens very rarely
Does not happen often
Not happening often
Antonyms
How Often
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rarely comes from the adjective rare, which means 'not common' or 'seldom', plus the word part -ly that makes an adverb. So rarely literally means 'not often', and we use it when something happens only on a few occasions.