rare

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
  • "a rare word"
  • "rare books"
• recurring only at long intervals
  • "a rare appearance"
  • "total eclipses are rare events"
• not widely distributed
  • "rare herbs"
  • "rare patches of green in the desert"
• having low density
  • "rare gasses"
  • "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
• marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind; -J.R.Lowell
  • "what is so rare as a day in June"
  • "a rare skill"
• (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside
  • "rare roast beef"

Synonyms

rarefied, rarified, uncommon