rare

Adjective
  1. Not widely known;
    Especially valued for its uncommonness (synset 300490548)
    "a rare word"; "rare books"
    similar to: uncommon - not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind
  2. Recurring only at long intervals (synset 301071227)
    "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events"
    similar to: infrequent - not frequent; not occurring regularly or at short intervals
  3. Not widely distributed (synset 300017062)
    "rare herbs"; "rare patches of green in the desert"
    similar to: scarce - deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
  4. Having low density (synset 302426521)
    "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
    similar to: thin - relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
    same as: rarefied, rarified
  5. Marked by an uncommon quality;
    Especially superlative or extreme of its kind (synset 301682771)
    "what is so rare as a day in June"; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree"
    similar to: extraordinary - beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable
    same as: uncommon
  6. (of meat) cooked a short time;
    Still red inside (synset 300622310)
    "rare roast beef"
    similar to: raw - not treated with heat to prepare it for eating

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