In this page you can discover 40 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for seldom, like: rarely, unusually, occasionally, frequently, inhabitually, sometimes, often, at-times, hardly, in a few cases and usually.

seldom. Antonyms: commonly, frequently, uniformly, systematically, habitually, regularly, often, invariably. Synonyms: rarely, infrequently, occasionally, inconstantly, hardly ever.

As adverbs the difference between frequently and seldom is that frequently is at frequent intervals while seldom is infrequently, rarely.

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

Seldom is a formal or literary word. It is used to say that something does not happen very often. If there is no auxiliary verb, seldom usually goes in front of the verb, unless the verb is be. He seldom laughed.

So the best advice (in my opinion) is to use seldom. But seldomly is not wrong. As already pointed out, the word “seldom” is mainly an adverb, even though it can be used as an adjective in some cases. And although “seldom” may be seldom in every day language, “seldomly” occurs even more seldom.

Seldom Sentence Examples The same people seldom show up twice. He seldom offered an opinion, much less began a conversation. Lisa had no trouble understanding why she seldom had company.

“Seldom” isn’t actually archaic or strange. It’s a reasonably common word, although possibly not as common as “rarely” or “hardly”. The fact that you yourself don’t use it doesn’t mean that it’s disappeared from English. It merely means that it doesn’t feature in your own list of common words.

1 : without variation, deviation, or change : always constantly on the alert constantly improving a temperature that’s constantly maintained …

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1. [S] [T] His wife nags him constantly. (
2. [S] [T] Tom and Mary fight constantly. (
3. [S] [T] She is constantly writing letters. (
4. [S] [T] He constantly criticizes other people. (
5. [S] [T] He was constantly borrowing money from me. (
6. [S] [T] They fight constantly. (
7. [S] [T] She watches TV constantly. (

What is another word for constantly?

derivation: constantly (adv.) Word Builder: constant + constantly: all the time; without stopping.

The word ‘always’ is an adverb. Adverbs are words that modify adjectives, verbs, or other adverbs in sentences.

Antonyms of CONSTANTLY little, infrequently, now, never, variously, sporadically, unusually, once, periodically, now and then, seldom, ne’er, intermittently, rarely.

Theirself is a singular, gender-neutral pronoun used as an alternative to the plural-sounding themselves or to the gender-specific himself or herself. Theirself is used in instances when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject has a gender identity other than male or female, such as nonbinary.

Themselves is the correct word. Theirselves is nonstandard.

Except usually functions as a preposition or a conjunction. As a preposition, except means “but.” As a conjunction, except is often followed by “that,” and it means “only” or “with the exception of.” In the rare cases that except functions as a verb, it means “to exclude, to object.”

verb. excepted; excepting; excepts. Definition of except (Entry 2 of 3) transitive verb. : to take or leave out from a number or a whole : exclude.

If you need a preposition or conjunction (or anything other than a verb), except is the term for you (accept is only used a verb).

[intransitive, transitive] to take willingly something that is offered; to say ‘yes’ to an offer, invitation, etc. He asked me to marry him and I accepted.

In 32% of cases accept by is used And accepted by most consumers/voters. No further queue entries are accepted by the queue. Because we men are desperate to be accepted by you women. These things along with Social Security have largely been accepted by Conservatives.