Usually means: Not often; infrequently; seldom occurring.
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  1. rarely: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rarely: Merriam-Webster
  3. rarely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rarely: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rarely: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rarely: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rarely, rarely: Wordnik
  8. rarely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rarely: Wiktionary
  10. rarely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rarely: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rarely: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rarely, rarely: Dictionary.com
  14. rarely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rarely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. rarely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. rarely: Rhymezone
  18. Rarely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. rarely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. rarely: FreeDictionary.org
  21. rarely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. rarely: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rarely)

▸ adverb:  Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often.
▸ adverb:  Unusually well; excellently.
▸ adverb:  To a rare degree; very.

Similar:
seldom, seldomly, often, never, hardly, usually, infrequently, frequently, normally, typically, more...

Opposite:
often, frequently, commonly, usually, regularly

Types:
never, seldom, infrequently, more...

Phrases:
rarely used, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, very rarely, rarely seen, rarely ever, more...

Colors:
    glaucous,     amaranth,     xanadu,     zaffre,     coquelicot, more...



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Similar:
seldom, seldomly, often, never, hardly, usually, infrequently, frequently, normally, typically, more...

Opposite:
often, frequently, commonly, usually, regularly

Types:
never, seldom, infrequently, more...

Phrases:
rarely used, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, very rarely, rarely seen, rarely ever, as rarely as possible, rarely uses, someone who is rarely seen, very rarely heard instruments, more...

Colors:
    glaucous,     amaranth,     xanadu,     zaffre,     coquelicot, more...



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