rare
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rare1
▶adjective (rarer, rarest)
- 1 occurring very infrequently.
■ existing in small numbers and so of interest or value.
- 2 remarkable: a player of rare skill.
– derivatives
rareness noun.
rareness noun.
– origin ME: from L. rarus.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rare2
▶adjective (rarer, rarest) (of red meat) lightly cooked, so that the inside is still red.
– origin C18: var. of obs. rear ‘half-cooked’.
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- apprehensive
- approbation
- argute
- assumptive
- aye-aye
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- catharsis
- cento
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- collocutor
- colorific
- comminatory
- common
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- compossible
- concinnity
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- contrate wheel
- convenience
- convolve
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