Antonyms for rare
rɛərrare

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. rare

   Unique is alone of its kind; rare is infrequent of its kind; great poems are rare; "Paradise Lost" is unique. To say of a thing that it is rare is simply to affirm that it is now seldom found, whether previously common or not; as, a rare old book; a rare word; to call a thing scarce implies that it was at some time more plenty, as when we say food or money is scarce. A particular fruit or coin may be rare; scarce applies to demand and use, and almost always to concrete things; to speak of virtue, genius, or heroism as scarce would be somewhat ludicrous. Rare has the added sense of precious, which is sometimes, but not necessarily, blended with that above given; as, a rare gem. Extraordinary, signifying greatly beyond the ordinary, is a neutral word, capable of a high and good sense or of an invidious, opprobrious, or contemptuous signification; as, extraordinary genius; extraordinary wickedness; an extraordinary assumption of power; extraordinary antics; an extraordinary statement is incredible without overwhelming proof.

   See synonyms for GENERAL; NORMAL; USUAL.

   Synonyms:
   curious, extraordinary, incomparable, infrequent, odd, peculiar, precious, remarkable, scarce, singular, strange, uncommon, unique, unparalleled, unprecedented, unusual

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. rareadjective

   not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness

   "a rare word"; "rare books"

   Antonyms:
   cooked, thick, ordinary, frequent, common, abundant

   Synonyms:
   rarefied, rarified, uncommon

2. rareadjective

   recurring only at long intervals

   "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events"

   Antonyms:
   cooked, common, ordinary, frequent, abundant, thick

   Synonyms:
   rarefied, rarified, uncommon

3. rareadjective

   not widely distributed

   "rare herbs"; "rare patches of green in the desert"

   Antonyms:
   abundant, frequent, common, thick, ordinary, cooked

   Synonyms:
   rarefied, rarified, uncommon

4. rare, rarefied, rarifiedadjective

   having low density

   "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"

   Antonyms:
   abundant, ordinary, thick, cooked, frequent, common

   Synonyms:
   uncommon, rarified, noble-minded, elevated, lofty, idealistic, exalted, sublime, high-minded, high-flown, grand, rarefied

5. rare, uncommonadjective

   marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind

   "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree"

   Antonyms:
   ordinary, thick, abundant, cooked, frequent, common

   Synonyms:
   rarefied, rarified, uncommon

6. rareadjective

   (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside

   "rare roast beef"

   Antonyms:
   abundant, common, ordinary, frequent, thick, cooked

   Synonyms:
   rarefied, rarified, uncommon

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rareadjective

   Synonyms:
   uncommon, unusual, strange, infrequent, singular, curious, exquisite, fine, incomparable, recherché, sparse, dispersed, subtile, fine, thin, rarefied, tenuous, underdone

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. often

   something that occurs or done frequently. doing it almost all the time.

   i often practice mathematics...

   Submitted by anonymous on May 31, 2020  

2. daily

   Submitted by tbenson7 on April 19, 2020  

How to use rare in a sentence?

1. Brad Karkkainen:

   I've never heard of a 20-year NEPA approval process. That's not to say there's never been one, but if so it would be an extremely rare outlier, not the norm.

2. Sipho P Nkosi:

   In dogs, I see what is so rare in humans.

3. Adam Schiff:

   I'm not sure the Chief Justice is fully aware of just how rare it is, how extraordinary it is, for the House members to be able to command the attention of senators sitting silently for hours, or even for minutes, for that matter, of course, it doesn't hurt that the morning starts out every day with the sergeant at arms warning you that, if you don't, you will be imprisoned.

4. Chen Jiaqi:

   I think more and more Chinese customers are about the flavour of the beer itself, and if the beer is unique and rare then they will choose it.

5. Sean Morales-Doyle:

   Those provisions basically acknowledge the fact that there is some risk of the rare occasion where somebody is going to be registered inadvertently.

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