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rare
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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
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