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Rare   /rɛr/   Listen
Rare

adjective
1.
Not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness.  "Rare books"
2.
Recurring only at long intervals.  "Total eclipses are rare events"
3.
Not widely distributed.  "Rare patches of green in the desert"
4.
Having low density.  Synonyms: rarefied, rarified.  "Lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
5.
Marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind.  Synonym: uncommon.  "A rare skill" , "An uncommon sense of humor" , "She was kind to an uncommon degree"
6.
(of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside.



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"Rare" Quotes from Famous Books



... ship doth cut, with pleasant gales, Or nimble Barke with swelling sayles: The large-fin'd Chrystall cattell as they goe Are forced whether they will or no With ready dragnet; then with lines of haire They round the Lake, or Nets more rare. ...
— The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils • Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski
... Whose rare, good gifts have endeared him to all lovers of the English tongue, this volume, historically and practically treating of one of the greatest of plants, as well as the rarest of ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings
... spoke him fair, She sent him on his way; She said as she stood smiling there, You've wealth, and wiles, and wisdom rare, But I have won ...
— Allison Bain - By a Way she knew not • Margaret Murray Robertson
... garrulous woman. The invincibly taciturn woman is so rare as to have escaped objurgation. Yet she too is a terror ...
— Hints for Lovers • Arnold Haultain
... rushing to the hall found the gentlemen-at-arms in consternation also. They had sent to wake their captain, who said from their description that it must have been an earthquake, an occurrence which, although very rare in that country, had taken place almost within the century; and then went to bed again, strange to say, and fell fast asleep without once thinking of Curdie, or associating the noises they had heard with what he had told them. ...
— The Princess and the Goblin • George MacDonald


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