Find the synonyms or antonyms of a word
Antonyms for rarer
| 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
- 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
Synonyms for rarer
- admirable
- attenuate
- attenuated
- bloody
- choice
- dainty
- deficient
- delicate
- elegant
- exquisite
- extraordinary
- extreme
- few
- few and far between
- fine
- flimsy
- great
- half-cooked
- half-raw
- incomparable
- inconceivable
- invaluable
- isolated
- light
- limited
- matchless
- moderately done
- nearly raw
- not done
- occasional
- out of the ordinary
- peerless
- priceless
- rarefied
- rarely done
- recherché
- red
- rich
- scanty
- scarce
- scattered
- seldom
- select
- semioccasional
- short
- singular
- sparse
- sporadic
- strange
- subtile
- subtle
- superb
- superlative
- tenuous
- thin
- uncommon
- undercooked
- underdone
- unfrequent
- unheard of
- unimaginable
- unique
- unlikely
- unthinkable
- unusual
- unwonted
Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019