Dictionary Entry
rare
rare is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Early. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Early.
- 2superlative
Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
- 3superlative
Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
- 4superlative
Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
- 5superlative
Thinly scattered; dispersed.
- 6superlative
Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.
- 7adjective
not widely distributed
"rare herbs"
"rare patches of green in the desert"
- 8adjective
not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
"a rare word"
"rare books"
- 9adjective
(of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside
"rare roast beef"
- 10adjective
recurring only at long intervals
"a rare appearance"
"total eclipses are rare events"
- 11adjective
marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind-J.R.Lowell
"what is so rare as a day in June"
"a rare skill"
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- 12adjective
having low density
"rare gasses"
"lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
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