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rarely

adv
/ˈɹɛːli/UK/ˈɹɛəɹli/US/ɹɛli/

Etymology

From rare + -ly.

  1. derived from *h₁reh₁-✻ — “friable, thin”
  2. derived from rārus — “loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”
  3. derived from rare
  4. inherited from rare
  5. formed as rarely — “rare + -ly”

Definitions

  1. Not occurring at a regular interval

    Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often.

    • We rarely go to the theatre.
    • Rarely do you ever find an eagle this far up the river.
    • You have to give them credit, rarely does a character appeal equally to four-year-old children and middle-aged aunts posting tepid jokes and fake Oscar Wilde quotes on their timelines.

  2. Unusually well

    Unusually well; excellently.

    • After all the schooling, I can finally write rarely now.

  3. To a rare degree

    To a rare degree; very.

    • I became a rarely good judge of the best in modern painting.
    • others speake very honourably of his life and death, and in all other circumstances declare him to have beene a most excellent and rarely virtuous man.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rarely. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA