Adjective: seldom
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | seldomer |
| Superlative | seldomest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more seldom |
| Superlative | most seldom |
Sample Sentences
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a suppressed and seldom anger [1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:]
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He was very curious in his garden, which was never out of order; in which he would at seldom times take a short walk or two, not enduring to see a weed in it. [1850, Vignaud Pamphlets: Sir Isaac Newton, page 513:]
Adjectives inflected like seldom
wholsom,
seldom,
scared,
solemn,
silent,
beloved,
uptight,
perfect,
useless,
up-tight,
selfish,
distinct,
discreet,
Dutch,
reckless,
bumfuck,
worthless,
slender,
faithfull,
shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. From late Middle English seldom, alteration of earlier selden by analogy with adverbial datives such as whilom, from Old English seldan (“seldom”), from Proto-West Germanic *seldanā, from Proto-Germanic *seldanē.
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian säilden (“seldom”), West Frisian selden, komselden (“rare, seldom”), Dutch zelden, German selten, Danish sjælden, Norwegian Bokmål sjelden, Norwegian Nynorsk sjeldan, Swedish sällan, Faroese sjáldan, Icelandic sjaldan. More at seld and selly. See: German Adjectives '
selten'.
Verbs referencing "seldom"
German Adjectives
selten, German Adjectives
seltsam.