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sel·dom

seldom

 
 
pronunciation:
sel dm
part of speech: adverb
definition: "Seldom" means not often or almost never. If you seldom do something, you don't do it much at all.
Jaden doesn't really like eggs, so he seldom eats them.Since the ice rink in their neighborhood closed, Shanice and her friends seldom go skating now. The other ice rink is too far away.
synonyms:
rarely
antonyms:
often
similar words:
hardly, little, occasionally