Synonyms for rare
rɛərrare

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1. rare

   Unique is alone of its kind; rare is infrequent of its kind; great poems are rare; "Paradise Lost" is unique. To say of a thing that it is rare is simply to affirm that it is now seldom found, whether previously common or not; as, a rare old book; a rare word; to call a thing scarce implies that it was at some time more plenty, as when we say food or money is scarce. A particular fruit or coin may be rare; scarce applies to demand and use, and almost always to concrete things; to speak of virtue, genius, or heroism as scarce would be somewhat ludicrous. Rare has the added sense of precious, which is sometimes, but not necessarily, blended with that above given; as, a rare gem. Extraordinary, signifying greatly beyond the ordinary, is a neutral word, capable of a high and good sense or of an invidious, opprobrious, or contemptuous signification; as, extraordinary genius; extraordinary wickedness; an extraordinary assumption of power; extraordinary antics; an extraordinary statement is incredible without overwhelming proof.

   See synonyms for GENERAL; NORMAL; USUAL.

   Synonyms:
   curious, extraordinary, incomparable, infrequent, odd, peculiar, precious, remarkable, scarce, singular, strange, uncommon, unique, unparalleled, unprecedented, unusual

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1. rareadjective

   not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness

   "a rare word"; "rare books"

   Synonyms:
   rarefied, rarified, uncommon

   Antonyms:
   cooked, thick, ordinary, frequent, common, abundant

2. rareadjective

   recurring only at long intervals

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

   Synonyms:
   rarefied, rarified, uncommon

   Antonyms:
   cooked, common, ordinary, frequent, abundant, thick

3. rareadjective

   not widely distributed

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

   Synonyms:
   rarefied, rarified, uncommon

   Antonyms:
   abundant, frequent, common, thick, ordinary, cooked

4. rare, rarefied, rarifiedadjective

   having low density

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

   Synonyms:
   uncommon, rarified, noble-minded, elevated, lofty, idealistic, exalted, sublime, high-minded, high-flown, grand, rarefied

   Antonyms:
   abundant, ordinary, thick, cooked, frequent, common

5. rare, uncommonadjective

   marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind

   "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree"

   Synonyms:
   rarefied, rarified, uncommon

   Antonyms:
   ordinary, thick, abundant, cooked, frequent, common

6. rareadjective

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

   "rare roast beef"

   Synonyms:
   rarefied, rarified, uncommon

   Antonyms:
   abundant, common, ordinary, frequent, thick, cooked

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1. rareadjective

   Synonyms:
   thin, subtile, not dense

2. rareadjective

   Synonyms:
   SCARCE, uncommon, infrequent, unfrequent, singular, extraordinary, strange, out of the way, not common

3. rareadjective

   Synonyms:
   choice, fine, excellent, exquisite, incomparable, inimitable

4. rareadjective

   Synonyms:
   underdone, nearly raw, not well done or well cooked

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1. rareadjective

   Synonyms:
   uncommon, unusual, strange, infrequent, singular, curious, exquisite, fine, incomparable, recherché, sparse, dispersed, subtile, fine, thin, rarefied, tenuous, underdone

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1. List of paraphrases for "rare":

   uncommon, scarce, nader, infrequent, unusual, few, nadir, rarely, sparse, exceptional, rarity, precious, seldom

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1. Chris Stewart:

   Today is rare. The Garners. The Blands. The Rice family. They didn't get this type of justice that we got today, so it is a phenomenal day. And hopefully this will be the blueprint of future success for civil rights because it's got to change.

2. David Brent:

   It’s still extremely rare, i think it’s just a wakeup call.

3. Avik Roy:

   We have accepted culturally that it's OK for a company to charge high prices for [ orphan ] drugs, the end result is that a lot of these orphan drugs are $ 10 billion drugs, even though they are for rare diseases.

4. Michael Christie:

   The partnership is a reality of today's defense market. It is very rare for major capital programs to be done on their own and it's very rare for somebody to develop something and just sell it.

5. Ste Marie:

   I had a feeling it might be a rare encounter, but I really had no idea just how rare, it's pretty crazy to be lucky enough to see one.