seldom sounds rather literary. In everyday English, people usually say rarely or not very often: I seldom go there. → I don't go there very often.

In written English, rarely is sometimes used at the beginning of a sentence before an auxiliary, to emphasize that something seems surprising or special: Rarely ...

seldomsel‧dom /ˈsɛldəm/ adverbio rara vez, pocas veces• She seldom travels. Rara vez viaja.• He very seldom loses his temper. No pierde la calma casi nunca.

seldomsel‧dom J3 /ˈseldəm/ [副] めったに…（し）ない• Council meetings are seldom longer than an hour. 協議会が1時間を超えることはめったにない．

Some adverbs (eg hardly, little, never, only, scarcely and seldom) have a negative meaning. When we use these at the beginning of the clause, we invert the ...

​not often synonym rarely. He had seldom seen a child with so much talent. She seldom, if ever, goes to the theatre. They seldom watch television these days.

seldomsel‧dom /ˈseldəm/ [부] 거의 ⋯않는, 좀처럼 ⋯않는 = rarely• She seldom travels. 그녀는 거의 여행을 하지 않는다• He very seldom loses his temper.

The meaning of SELDOM is in few instances : rarely, infrequently. How to use seldom in a sentence.

23 окт. 2024 г. · almost never: Now that we have a baby, we seldom get the chance to go to the cinema. formal Seldom do we receive any apology when mistakes are made.

adverb. on only a few occasions; rarely; infrequently; not often: We seldom see our old neighbors anymore.