rare

adjective · noun · verbA1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

rarerrarestmore rare

Superlative

most rarereerrere

1.
Very uncommon; scarce.
Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable.
Đồng nghĩa: scarce, selcouth, seld, selly, geason, uncommon
2.
(medicine, pathology) Small in number (but not unusual); infrequent; sparse.
3.
(of a gas) Thin; of low density.
4.
(UK, slang)Good; enjoyable.
Sees her reflection in a butcher shop. She finds it all quite rare That her meat's all vanity fair.
5.
(US, slang)Cool; excellent.
I whistled for a cab and when it came near / The license plate said ‘fresh’ and it had dice in the mirror. / If anything I could say that this cab was rare.
6.
(cooking) Particularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.
7.
(obsolete)Early.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

rares

1.
(gaming) A scarce or uncommon item.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

rares

V_ing/Gerund

raring

V_ed/pp

rared

1.
(US, intransitive)To rear, rise up, start backwards.
2.
(US, transitive)To rear, bring up, raise.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

scarce selcouth seld selly geason uncommonseldsome

Trái nghĩa

common frequent average basicbog-standardcommon as bumscommon as dirtcommon as muckcommon as pig tracksdime a dozeneveryday general

Cùng gốc / liên quan

nonrarerareishrarenessrarepairraresomerarify semiraresuperrareultrarareunrarein rare formon rare formrare animalrare as a four-leaf cloverrare as hen's teethrare as rocking horse shitrare birdrare earthrare earth elementrare-earth element

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English rare, from Old French rare, rere (rare, uncommon), from Latin rārus (loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (friable, thin). Displaced native geason (rare, scarce) (from gesen, from gǣsne); and largely displaced seld (from selden) and seldscene (from seldsēne) hence modern seld