RARE

• (adj.) not widely distributed

  "rare herbs", "rare patches of green in the desert"

• (adj.) not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness

  "a rare word", "rare books"

• (adj.) (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside

  "rare roast beef"

• (adj.) recurring only at long intervals

  "a rare appearance", "total eclipses are rare events"

• (adj.) marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind

  "what is so rare as a day in June", "a rare skill", "an uncommon sense of humor", "she was kind to an uncommon degree"

  synonyms : uncommon

• (adj.) having low density

  "rare gasses", "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"

  synonyms : rarefied , rarified

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