rarer

adj.exceptional, infrequent
adj.precious, excellent
adj.not fully cooked

Antonyms for rarer

Word Origin & History

"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.

Example Sentences forrarer

A good boy was rarer than a good horse, and of more actual value.

It is indeed a rarer gift than the power of understanding itself.

The rarer their occurrence, the greater the significance attached to them.

He is exactly like the magistrates in old days, but he and his kind get rarer every year.

They are rarer than humanity in a Roman, or apostacy in a Jew, or truth in a Christian.

Such a criticism applies only to the rarer and costlier desiderata.

All these we met with, over and over again: rarer plants were to be found for the looking.

This, in the present English, is the rarer of the two constructions.

They were beings who breathed a rarer air than she had ever known.

The skins of rarer animals were never shorn of the natural hair.