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Grammar : Adj
Spell : rair
Phonetic Transcription : rɛər



Definition of rarer

Origin :
  • "unusual," late 14c., "thin, airy, porous;" mid-15c., "few in number and widely separated, sparsely distributed, seldom found;" from Old French rere "sparse" (14c.), from Latin rarus "thinly sown, having a loose texture; not thick; having intervals between, full of empty spaces," from PIE *ra-ro-, from root *ere- "to separate; adjoin" (cf. Sanskrit rte "besides, except," viralah "distant, tight, rare;" Old Church Slavonic rediku "rare," Old Hittite arhaš "border," Lithuanian irti "to be dissolved"). "Few in number," hence, "unusual." Related: Rareness. In chemistry, rare earth is from 1818.
  • adj exceptional, infrequent
  • adj precious, excellent
  • adj not fully cooked
Example sentences :
  • A good boy was rarer than a good horse, and of more actual value.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • It is indeed a rarer gift than the power of understanding itself.
  • Extract from : « David Elginbrod » by George MacDonald
  • The rarer their occurrence, the greater the significance attached to them.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
  • He is exactly like the magistrates in old days, but he and his kind get rarer every year.
  • Extract from : « The Cult of Incompetence » by Emile Faguet
  • They are rarer than humanity in a Roman, or apostacy in a Jew, or truth in a Christian.
  • Extract from : « Aurelian » by William Ware
  • Such a criticism applies only to the rarer and costlier desiderata.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Collector » by William Carew Hazlitt
  • All these we met with, over and over again: rarer plants were to be found for the looking.
  • Extract from : « In the Tail of the Peacock » by Isabel Savory
  • This, in the present English, is the rarer of the two constructions.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
  • They were beings who breathed a rarer air than she had ever known.
  • Extract from : « The Opened Shutters » by Clara Louise Burnham
  • The skins of rarer animals were never shorn of the natural hair.
  • Extract from : « The World's Progress, Vol. I (of X) » by Various

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