Not enough
Rarely and not enough are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rarely" instead an adverb phrase "Not enough".
Rarely
Rarely adverb - Not often.
Not enough and rarely are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Not enough" instead an adverb "Rarely".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- And if that were not enough, a Time Dragon rarely deigns to converse with anything less than a god... and sometimes, not even then.
- Due to how rarely new chapters come out, this has led to complaints that the series is spending too much time on fighting monsters, and not enough time on getting Casca cured so she and Guts can move forward.
Source: Romantic Plot Tumor - Subverted in the James Bond films, where MI6 and Bond rarely if ever use any such language, with the Judi Dench version of M outright using the word "kill" when discussing her orders (The World Is Not Enough, et al).
Source: Deadly Euphemism
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