rarely
UK /ˈɹɛːli/ · US /ˈɹɛəɹli/ adverb
Forms rarelier rareliest
- adverb Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often. “We rarely go to the theatre.”
- adverb Unusually well; excellently. “After all the schooling, I can finally write rarely now.”
- adverb To a rare degree; very. “I became a rarely good judge of the best in modern painting.”
Synonyms
barely hardly infrequently once in a while seldom sporadically scarcely seldomly uncommonly unoften
Antonyms
Etymology
From rare + -ly.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rarely”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details