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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abnormally, at infrequent intervals, few, hardly, hardly ever, incredibly, infrequently, irregularly, little, not often, occasional, occasionally, rare, rarely, scarce, scarcely, scarcely ever, seldom if ever, sparsely, sporadic, sporadically, uncommon, uncommonly, uncustomarily, unexpectedly, unfrequent, unfrequently, unnaturally, unoften, unordinarily, unusually, very seldom

Dictionary Results for seldom:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

seldom
    adv 1: not often; "we rarely met" [syn: rarely, seldom]
           [ant: frequently, oft, often, oftentimes,
           ofttimes]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Seldom \Sel"dom\, a.
   Rare; infrequent. [Archaic.] "A suppressed and seldom anger."
   --Jer. Taylor.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Seldom \Sel"dom\ (s[e^]l"d[u^]m), adv. [Usually, Compar. More
   seldom (m[=o]r" s[e^]l"d[u^]m); superl. Most seldom
   (m[=o]st" s[e^]l"d[u^]m); but sometimes also, Seldomer
   (s[e^]l"d[u^]m*[~e]r), Seldomest.] [AS. seldan, seldon,
   seldum, fr. seld rare; akin to OFries. sielden, D. zelden, G.
   selten, OHG. seltan, Icel. sjaldan, Dan. sielden, Sw.
   s[aum]llan, Goth. sildaleiks marvelous.]
   Rarely; not often; not frequently.
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         Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. --Hooker.
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