uncommonadjective
uk/ʌnˈkɒm.ən/us/ʌnˈkɑː.mən/uncommon adjective (NOT FREQUENT)
C1 not seen, happening, or experienced often:
Accidents due to failure of safety equipment are uncommon nowadays.
It's not uncommon for people to become ill when they travel.
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Unknown and unfamiliar
- a pig in a poke idiom
- alien
- foreign
- hidden
- lesser-known
- obscure
- obscurity
- pig
- shadowy
- strange
- strangeness
- TBD
- uncharted
- unexplored
- unfamiliar
- unheard-of
- unknown
- unused
- vocabulary
- wild card
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uncommon adjective (EXTREME)
old-fashioned formal An uncommon quality, especially a human quality, is larger in amount or degree than usual:
a woman of uncommon beauty
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Big and quite big
- appreciable
- baronial
- burly
- capacious
- commodious
- fair
- grand
- heavy
- juicy
- L, l
- large-scale
- largish
- macro
- mass
- side
- spacious
- supersize
- swamp
- sweeping
- the bigger the better idiom
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