Vocabulary
Seldom
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
not often; rarely.
Urdu meaning
کبھی کبھار، بہت کم
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
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Yet taking a single thread from a woven fabric seldom reveals the design it was part of.
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A divine design
— 2026-04-10
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Decisions on fuel supply, subsidies, logistics and exports were taken at the same time, but were seldom in sync.
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Centralised authority
— 2026-04-10
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Even where this culture is good, things seem to have happened by default and seldom by design.
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Organisational culture matters
— 2026-03-13
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Democracies seldom represent everyone`s interest and cater to class interests mostly.
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That longing for regime change
— 2026-03-03
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The actual yearly output of extracted minerals and their contribution to our GDP, however, seldom surfaces in the news as there`s nothing out of the ordinary in that data.
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Our mining sector
— 2026-02-27
Synonyms
rarely, infrequently, on rare occasions, hardly ever, scarcely ever, hardly,
Antonyms
often, frequently
Curator example
“Islay is seldom visited by tourists”
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