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ADJECTIVE rare COMPARATIVE rarer SUPERLATIVE rarest

rare English

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What does rare mean?

Definitions in simple English

rare Adjective

— If something is rare, you seldom see it or there are only a few. It's rare to have snow in June. The vory-billed woodpecker is a very rare bird, and has only been seen by a few people. — If a meat is cooked rare, it is cooked very lightly so that the meat is still red when it is done.

rare

— adjective not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness a rare word rare books — adjective not widely distributed rare herbs rare patches of green in the desert — adjective recurring only at long intervals a rare appearance total eclipses are rare events — adjective (= rarefied) having low density rare gasses lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air — adjective (= uncommon) 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 — adjective (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside rare roast beef

Synonyms rare synonyms

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rare English » English

uncommon scarce unusual precious sparse thin curious unique infrequent novel few valuable strange seldom singular unequaled matchless extraordinary unparalleled scanty rarified rarely rarefied occasional little half-baked excellent bloody unfrequent small short scant raw poor odd in short supply half-done half-cooked flag exceptional difficult to obtain abnormal wondrous wonderful watery washy wanting very precious unseasonable unparallelled

Topics rare topics

What do people use rare to talk about?

Daily life Food

Dense

What words describe something that is not dense?

thin porous spongy hollow tenuous rare

States Time Aspectual time Once

Often

What words describe something that does not happen often?

rare infrequent

Examples rare examples

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Simple sentences

It's rare to meet nice people like you.

I collect rare coins.

I want to give you something rare.

It's a rare disorder.

It is not rare at all to live over ninety years.

It is true she is a rare beauty.

I would like mine rare.

Such poets as Milton are rare.

Some people keep rare animals as pets.

Painters such as Picasso are rare.

Such painters as Picasso are rare.

Where did you come across the rare stamps?

I like my steak rare.

These butterflies are rare in our country.

This is a very rare specimen.

This is a very rare case.

I see a rare flower in the vase.

All you have to do is take advantage of this rare opportunity.

Can you obtain this rare book for me?

How did you come by those rare books?

There are rare animals in Australia.

How did you come by these rare books?

Salt was a rare and costly commodity in ancient times.

I came upon a rare stamp at that store.

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It's rare that birth mother wanna reconnect after they left their kid but she does.

I have done a rare thing.

This is rare in Spain and gives the streets a medieval aspect.

Balconies are rare in Las Hurdes.

A death is one of the rare events in these miserable villages.

A pathological condition that is not as rare as one might suspect.

Rare, medium, well-done, and overdone.

Yogami spoke of some rare plant that Glendon had.

And a few pieces, extraordinary, rare pieces even up to two million.

If it's really rare, it can be three million.

Look, I am very fond of Baron Krog, he is a rare man.

Oh, now I have a real rare treat for you.

I'd like to show you our rare treasures.

You're not rare enough animals.

Contacts were rare.

And as all my winks, my furtive signs, my asking whether you possessed a painting or a rare sculpture to show me, as all this didn't help I had the idea.

An important painter once mentioned her name to me as that of a rare talent.

A very rare edition.

They are quite rare these days.

You'd have made a rare sailor, ma'am.

It's very rare.

It was a beautiful day, one of those rare days we happen to be in?

I had an Italian straw hat but I sold it. A very rare one!

You're such a rare visitor.

I have done a rare thing. I have invented a new sensation.

And a rare crime.

You must know, Professor Berry gave me the idea to show these rare stamps together for the first time. They'll all claim damages!

This is a rare treat, isn't it, my lady?

Today we have the rare privilege of distinguished visitors.

It's rare.

Mysteries are for books, but in life it's very rare.

News and current affairs

His scholarly training and rhetorical gifts supplemented each other in a rare fashion.

Global warming is one of those rare instances where the scientific community is more fearful of what may be happening than the population at large.

Of course, pure public goods are rare.

Sometimes they respect the adviser's wisdom and insights (fairly rare in diplomacy).

With rare exceptions, politics has become a discredited profession throughout the West.

Unfortunately, such examples of international cooperation are as rare as they are impressive.

Such arrangements make sense in rare circumstances (perhaps in a very small and open economy such as Estonia).

NEW DELHI - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, in a rare overseas trip, are scheduled to begin a tour of the Indian cities of New Delhi and Chennai on November 30.

Big speculative bubbles are rare events.

And large-scale farmland bubbles are quite rare: there was only one in the US in the entire twentieth century, during the great population scare of the 1970's.

If one believes that market instability is rare, then it is reasonable to refuse to act unless there is a compelling case to do so.

With rare candor, China's government recently released statistics on people arrested and prosecuted for endangering state security, the most serious political offence in the criminal code.

Indeed, China has a rare problem: excessive savings.

Following the rare display of open indignation by Xi and Wang, such speculation has now become stronger than ever.

Even more importantly, Murdoch represented a concept of family business that is common in many parts of the world, but relatively rare in Britain and the United States.

Burundi's cultural and linguistic homogeneity, rare in Africa, belies the simplistic view that the Hutu and Tutsi fight because they are so different.

It is a rare event when two volumes of the same book top the Argentine bestseller list.

With Abe, Park, and Xi each facing daunting domestic challenges, a rare convergence in each country of self-interest and national interest may be creating a chance for improved relations.

Even if it were a remote possibility, the 2008 financial crisis has taught us that rare events occur.

Then they received a diagnosis of dystonia, a rare neurological disorder.

Bond-market crashes have actually been relatively rare and mild.

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