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adjectiverarest, rarer rɛːrɛr 1(of an event, situation, or condition) not occurring very often. with infinitive it's rare to see a house so little altered Example sentencesExamples - In this day and age, it's a rare event due to the stormwater engineering in our cities.
- I think you can get depression off the drug, although I still think it is a very rare event.
- These events are so rare that it's hard to find direct evidence of them on earth.
- Nine months later, the nation witnesses the rare situation of having no ruling party.
- It is a very rare condition in Samantha's age group and she is one of only a few teenagers in the country to have it.
- I think part of it was that staying up to midnight was a rare event, an exciting exception to our daily life.
- The best that most of us can do is to live with it, enjoy it and be thankful it is such a rare event.
- Either way, they are a rare event round here lately, so that makes them a big deal.
- The condition is rare and is caused by the inheritance of an abnormal gene from an affected parent.
- Soon they would know far more than they ever wanted to about a rare condition called tuberous sclerosis.
- This very rare condition stops the nerve fibres from sending a signal to the brain.
- Ben's condition is so rare that only 33 people in the world have ever been diagnosed with it.
- Olivia suffers from two rare conditions which severely restrict almost everything she does.
- She was diagnosed with a rare condition that inflamed her liver at just six weeks old.
- The condition is so rare it only affects a handful of women in the world each year.
- But the event also offers a rare chance to put some of the town's most caring people into the spotlight.
- They donated Vicki's heart for research so that experts can learn more about the rare condition.
- The rescue of Bulgarian Jews represents a rare event in the history of the civilised world.
- It also gives them a rare opportunity to meet recent graduates in a relaxed environment.
- Live Aid was a stadium concert held at a time when giant outdoor events were rare.
Synonyms infrequent, few and far between, scarce, sparse, scattered, thin on the ground, golden, like gold dust, as scarce as hen's teeth occasional, limited, odd, isolated, sporadic, intermittent, unaccustomed, unwonted British out of the common - 1.1 (of a thing) not found in large numbers and so of interest or value.
one of Britain's rarest birds, the honey buzzard Example sentencesExamples - A lone pair of marsh warblers, an extremely rare and tiny bird, has also bred at the centre.
- Other rare British birds are also under threat as the turbines proliferate.
- The plants were rare in the valley itself, although they were profuse on the hillsides.
- These are mature lakes of great beauty, often the haunt of rare animals and birds.
- They revel in observing rare plants and animals and some groups even book hunting trips.
- Ituri is a rare ecosystem possessing plants and animals that exist nowhere else on earth.
- Security has been reviewed at Manchester Museum after three rare coins were stolen from a display case.
- The locally and regionally important grassland nature reserve is home to a range of rare insects and plants.
- Yet the site is also home to rare mammals such as water voles and rare plants such as pepper saxifrage.
- These trees will help to provide shelter and food for birds including the rare black grouse.
- They are too rare and valuable a bird to be hawked about with the rest of your menagerie.
- But it was a rare drug, a plant extract imported from South America at great expense.
- Thieves will jump the fence more easily and take away some of the rare plants.
- They were studying a cluster of rhododendrons on the Azalea Lawn when they came across the rare plant.
- Students were lucky to spot rare species of plants, giant squirrels and wild mushrooms.
- Sometimes he goes to watch birds in the suburban marshes, where more rare species can be found.
- Daniel George plants rare peanut trees in Keen Street to replace the golden rain trees.
- At that time, many people showed a keen interest in studying rare animals and birds.
- Kent saw large numbers of common birds and higher than normal counts of scarce and rare wintering birds.
- Young people with more than a normal interest in Botany might try to remember the names of rare species.
Synonyms unusual, uncommon, unfamiliar, out of the ordinary, atypical, singular, remarkable, recherché, special, precious - 1.2 Unusually good or remarkable.
he plays with rare sensitivity Example sentencesExamples - Artistically, it is a rare and precious gem that demands careful examination.
- For the most part, though, the game is still in a position of rare strength.
- For the rare or unusual gift, a trip round the antique or second-hand shops and a little imagination is all you need.
- To be able to take a stand like he did is rare and precious thing in politics.
Synonyms exceptional, outstanding, unparalleled, peerless, matchless, unique, unequalled, incomparable, unrivalled, inimitable, beyond compare, beyond comparison, without equal, second to none, unsurpassed, surpassing, exquisite, superb, consummate, superior, superlative, first-class, first-rate, special, choice, excellent, very fine informal A1, stellar, top-notch rare unexampled
Derivatives noun ˈrɛːnəsˈrɛrnəs The exceptions shine out all the more brilliantly for their rareness. Example sentencesExamples - The attention this has brought indicates the rareness of attacks.
- Where there is rareness, there is exclusiveness, and it is an exclusive type of environment.
- He bought his records on import, and the exclusivity and rareness of the music gave it a profound glamour.
- For dealer, collector and author Robert Weinberg of Chicago, the rareness of pulp paintings is a big draw.
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'widely spaced, infrequent'): from Latin rarus. Rhymes affair, affaire, air, Altair, Althusser, Anvers, Apollinaire, Astaire, aware, Ayer, Ayr, bare, bear, bêche-de-mer, beware, billionaire, Blair, blare, Bonaire, cafetière, care, chair, chargé d'affaires, chemin de fer, Cher, Clair, Claire, Clare, commissionaire, compare, concessionaire, cordon sanitaire, couvert, Daguerre, dare, debonair, declare, derrière, despair, doctrinaire, éclair, e'er, elsewhere, ensnare, ere, extraordinaire, Eyre, fair, fare, fayre, Finisterre, flair, flare, Folies-Bergère, forbear, forswear, foursquare, glair, glare, hair, hare, heir, Herr, impair, jardinière, Khmer, Kildare, La Bruyère, lair, laissez-faire, legionnaire, luminaire, mal de mer, mare, mayor, meunière, mid-air, millionaire, misère, Mon-Khmer, multimillionaire, ne'er, Niger, nom de guerre, outstare, outwear, pair, pare, parterre, pear, père, pied-à-terre, Pierre, plein-air, prayer, questionnaire, ready-to-wear, rivière, Rosslare, Santander, savoir faire, scare, secretaire, share, snare, solitaire, Soufrière, spare, square, stair, stare, surface-to-air, swear, Tailleferre, tare, tear, their, there, they're, vin ordinaire, Voltaire, ware, wear, Weston-super-Mare, where, yeah adjectiverarest, rarer rɛːrɛr (of meat, especially beef) lightly cooked, so that the inside is still red. Stephen likes his steak rare Example sentencesExamples - For this salad, the sirloin needs to be medium rare to rare, so it is sufficient just to sear the meat on both sides.
- A rare steak is returned by a customer who wants it better done.
- The steak could have been more tender if we had asked for it to be medium rare, which would have been better.
- The meat was tasty and cooked perfectly to my medium rare specification.
- Patty was so mad because she had ordered a well done steak only to get one that was very red and rare.
- It is the sort of place I might take my grandfather for a rare steak and a bottle of Chateau Neuf de Pape.
- This was sent back to the kitchen as the rare steak was overcooked and the sauce was burnt.
- The meat was cooked medium rare as ordered, and was tasty and delicious.
- My comrade saw the perverse and absurd side of life and was happy to laugh along with it over a nice rare steak and a beer.
- To them, it tastes as good as medium rare steak.
- Why should I be obliged to trade my rare steak for some fool's chicken Kiev?
- Top with slices of rare roast beef, then lettuce leaves, then tomato slices.
- Why does everything else pale in comparison to the rich, glistening red of a rare filet mignon?
- The spicy beef was rare and served with green mango and coriander, but lacked any real zing.
- We'll be cooking a steak rare on our barbeque and washing it down with some Chablis..
- In another fragment he recommends hare, cooked rare, for a similar occasion.
Origin Late 18th century: variant of obsolete rear 'half-cooked' (used to refer to soft-boiled eggs, from the mid 17th to mid 19th centuries). adjectivererrɛr 1(of an event, situation, or condition) not occurring very often. with infinitive it's rare to meet someone who's content with their life Example sentencesExamples - They donated Vicki's heart for research so that experts can learn more about the rare condition.
- This very rare condition stops the nerve fibres from sending a signal to the brain.
- Olivia suffers from two rare conditions which severely restrict almost everything she does.
- She was diagnosed with a rare condition that inflamed her liver at just six weeks old.
- Nine months later, the nation witnesses the rare situation of having no ruling party.
- In this day and age, it's a rare event due to the stormwater engineering in our cities.
- The condition is so rare it only affects a handful of women in the world each year.
- The condition is rare and is caused by the inheritance of an abnormal gene from an affected parent.
- Live Aid was a stadium concert held at a time when giant outdoor events were rare.
- Either way, they are a rare event round here lately, so that makes them a big deal.
- Ben's condition is so rare that only 33 people in the world have ever been diagnosed with it.
- It also gives them a rare opportunity to meet recent graduates in a relaxed environment.
- These events are so rare that it's hard to find direct evidence of them on earth.
- The rescue of Bulgarian Jews represents a rare event in the history of the civilised world.
- The best that most of us can do is to live with it, enjoy it and be thankful it is such a rare event.
- Soon they would know far more than they ever wanted to about a rare condition called tuberous sclerosis.
- It is a very rare condition in Samantha's age group and she is one of only a few teenagers in the country to have it.
- But the event also offers a rare chance to put some of the town's most caring people into the spotlight.
- I think you can get depression off the drug, although I still think it is a very rare event.
- I think part of it was that staying up to midnight was a rare event, an exciting exception to our daily life.
Synonyms infrequent, few and far between, scarce, sparse, scattered, thin on the ground, golden, like gold dust, as scarce as hen's teeth - 1.1 (of a thing) not found in large numbers and consequently of interest or value.
the jellyfish tree, one of the rarest plants on earth Example sentencesExamples - But it was a rare drug, a plant extract imported from South America at great expense.
- They are too rare and valuable a bird to be hawked about with the rest of your menagerie.
- At that time, many people showed a keen interest in studying rare animals and birds.
- They revel in observing rare plants and animals and some groups even book hunting trips.
- Daniel George plants rare peanut trees in Keen Street to replace the golden rain trees.
- A lone pair of marsh warblers, an extremely rare and tiny bird, has also bred at the centre.
- These are mature lakes of great beauty, often the haunt of rare animals and birds.
- Ituri is a rare ecosystem possessing plants and animals that exist nowhere else on earth.
- These trees will help to provide shelter and food for birds including the rare black grouse.
- Yet the site is also home to rare mammals such as water voles and rare plants such as pepper saxifrage.
- Students were lucky to spot rare species of plants, giant squirrels and wild mushrooms.
- Security has been reviewed at Manchester Museum after three rare coins were stolen from a display case.
- Young people with more than a normal interest in Botany might try to remember the names of rare species.
- The plants were rare in the valley itself, although they were profuse on the hillsides.
- Thieves will jump the fence more easily and take away some of the rare plants.
- Sometimes he goes to watch birds in the suburban marshes, where more rare species can be found.
- Other rare British birds are also under threat as the turbines proliferate.
- They were studying a cluster of rhododendrons on the Azalea Lawn when they came across the rare plant.
- The locally and regionally important grassland nature reserve is home to a range of rare insects and plants.
- Kent saw large numbers of common birds and higher than normal counts of scarce and rare wintering birds.
Synonyms unusual, uncommon, unfamiliar, out of the ordinary, atypical, singular, remarkable, recherché, special, precious - 1.2 Unusually good or remarkable.
he plays with rare strength and sensitivity Example sentencesExamples - Artistically, it is a rare and precious gem that demands careful examination.
- To be able to take a stand like he did is rare and precious thing in politics.
- For the most part, though, the game is still in a position of rare strength.
- For the rare or unusual gift, a trip round the antique or second-hand shops and a little imagination is all you need.
Synonyms exceptional, outstanding, unparalleled, peerless, matchless, unique, unequalled, incomparable, unrivalled, inimitable, beyond compare, beyond comparison, without equal, second to none, unsurpassed, surpassing, exquisite, superb, consummate, superior, superlative, first-class, first-rate, special, choice, excellent, very fine
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘widely spaced, infrequent’): from Latin rarus. adjectivererrɛr (of meat, especially beef) lightly cooked, so that the inside is still red. Stephen likes his steak rare Example sentencesExamples - Why should I be obliged to trade my rare steak for some fool's chicken Kiev?
- My comrade saw the perverse and absurd side of life and was happy to laugh along with it over a nice rare steak and a beer.
- The spicy beef was rare and served with green mango and coriander, but lacked any real zing.
- For this salad, the sirloin needs to be medium rare to rare, so it is sufficient just to sear the meat on both sides.
- To them, it tastes as good as medium rare steak.
- Patty was so mad because she had ordered a well done steak only to get one that was very red and rare.
- We'll be cooking a steak rare on our barbeque and washing it down with some Chablis..
- This was sent back to the kitchen as the rare steak was overcooked and the sauce was burnt.
- Top with slices of rare roast beef, then lettuce leaves, then tomato slices.
- The steak could have been more tender if we had asked for it to be medium rare, which would have been better.
- In another fragment he recommends hare, cooked rare, for a similar occasion.
- Why does everything else pale in comparison to the rich, glistening red of a rare filet mignon?
- It is the sort of place I might take my grandfather for a rare steak and a bottle of Chateau Neuf de Pape.
- A rare steak is returned by a customer who wants it better done.
- The meat was tasty and cooked perfectly to my medium rare specification.
- The meat was cooked medium rare as ordered, and was tasty and delicious.
Origin Late 18th century: variant of obsolete rear ‘half-cooked’ (used to refer to soft-boiled eggs, from the mid 17th to mid 19th centuries). |