Hungry vs Seldom - What's the difference?
hungry | seldom |
Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
(figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
* Charles Kingsley
* Shakespeare
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
* Shakespeare
Infrequently, rarely.
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, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.}}
*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times
, passage=People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (obsolete) rare; infrequent
As adjectives the difference between hungry and seldom
is that hungry is affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food while seldom is (obsolete) rare; infrequent.As an adverb seldom is
infrequently, rarely.hungry
English
Adjective
(er)- My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money .
- The cruel, hungry foam.
- Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
- a hungry soil
- The hungry beach.
Synonyms
* (sense)Derived terms
* * * *See also
* * 1000 English basic wordsseldom
English
Adverb
(en adverb)citation
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Usage notes
It is grammatically a negative word. It therefore collocates with ever rather than never. * Compare He seldom ever plays tennis.'' with ''He almost never plays tennis.Synonyms
* barely * hardly * rarely * scarcely * infrequentlyAntonyms
* often * frequentlyAdjective
(en adjective)- A suppressed and seldom anger. — Jeremy Taylor.