adjective
not widely known
Examples
- especially valued for its uncommonness
- a rare word
- rare books
adjective
recurring only at long intervals
Examples
- a rare appearance
- total eclipses are rare events
adjective
not widely distributed
Examples
- rare herbs
- rare patches of green in the desert
adjective
having low density
Synonyms
Examples
- rare gasses
- lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air
adjective
marked by an uncommon quality
Synonyms
Examples
- 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
Examples
- still red inside
- rare roast beef