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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exclusive |
| Synonyms: | cliquish, elevated, esoteric, exalted, lofty, private, select |
| Antonyms: | commonplace |
| Main Entry: | airy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicate or ethereal |
| Synonyms: | dainty, diaphanous, flimsy, fragile, frail, frivolous, illusory, imaginary, immaterial, intangible, light, rare, rarefied, tenuous, thin, vaporous, visionary, volatile, weightless, wispy |
| Antonyms: | heavy |
| Main Entry: | ethereal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicate, heavenly |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, celestial, dainty, divine, empyreal, empyrean, exquisite, fairy, filmy, fine, gaseous, ghostly, gossamer, impalpable, insubstantial, intangible, light, rarefied, refined, spiritual, sublime, subtle, supernal, tenuous, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, vaporous, vapory |
| Antonyms: | earthly, indelicate, worldly |
| Main Entry: | rare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exceptional, infrequent |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, attenuated, deficient, extraordinary, few, few and far between, flimsy, inconceivable, isolated, light, limited, occasional, out of the ordinary, rarefied, recherché, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, semioccasional, short, singular, sparse, sporadic, strange, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, uncommon, unfrequent, unheard of, unimaginable, unique, unlikely, unthinkable, unusual, unwonted |
| Notes: | rare means not widely known or recurring only at long intervals or not widely distributed; scarce means not enough or deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand |
| Antonyms: | common, frequent, regular, typical, usual |
| Main Entry: | refined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cleaned of impurities |
| Synonyms: | aerated, boiled down, clarified, clean, cleansed, distilled, drained, expurgated, filtered, processed, pure, purified, rarefied, strained, washed |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, dirtied, polluted |
| Main Entry: | spiritual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | religious, otherworldly |
| Synonyms: | airy, asomatous, devotional, discarnate, disembodied, divine, ethereal, extramundane, ghostly, holy, immaterial, incorporeal, intangible, metaphysical, nonmaterial, nonphysical, platonic, pure, rarefied, refined, sacred, supernal, unfleshly, unphysical |
| Antonyms: | bodily, irreligious, irreverent, physical, unspiritual |
| Main Entry: | tenuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, thin |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, attenuate, attenuated, delicate, doubtful, dubious, ethereal, fine, flimsy, gossamer, insignificant, insubstantial, light, narrow, nebulous, questionable, rare, rarefied, reedy, shaky, sketchy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, twiggy |
| Antonyms: | healthy, significant, stable, strong, substantial, thick |
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine, light, slender |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, skeletal, skinny, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted, wizened |
| Antonyms: | dense, fat, heavy, inflated, obese, thick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transparent, fine |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, attenuated, delicate, diaphanous, filmy, flimsy, gossamer, paper-thin, permeable, rare, rarefied, refined, see-through, sheer, slight, slim, subtile, subtle, tenuous, translucent, unsubstantial, wafer-thin, wispy |
| Antonyms: | dense, solid, thick |
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