1. (adv.) In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.

2. (adv.) Finely; excellently; with rare skill. See Rare.

abnormally at infrequent intervals exiguously extremely hardly hardly ever here and there in places in spots incredibly infrequently little meagerly not often piddlingly scantily scarcely scarcely ever scrimpily seldom seldom if ever skimpily sparsely sparsim spottily stingily uncommon uncommonly uncustomarily unexpectedly unfrequently unnaturally unoften unordinarily unusually very seldom