rare

Adjective

• (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside
  • rare roast beef
    

• 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
    

• having low density
  • rare gasses
    
  • lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air
    

• not widely distributed
  • rare herbs
    
  • rare patches of green in the desert
    

• recurring only at long intervals
  • a rare appearance
    
  • total eclipses are rare events
    

• not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
  • a rare word
    
  • rare books
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  uncommon , rarefied , rarified