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rarely

adverbecourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈɹɛːli//
  • États-Unis//ˈɹɛəɹli//
  • //ɹɛli//
  • //ɹeə.liː//
  • //ɹeəɹ(ᵊ)liː//

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

adverbe

  1. 1

    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. 2

    Unusually well; excellently.

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

  3. 3

    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.

Étymologie

Etymology tree English rare Middle English -ly English -ly English rarely From rare + -ly.

Formes

comparatif
rarelier, more rarely
superlatif
rareliest, most rarely
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).