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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | standout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rare |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, attenuated, deficient, exceptional, extraordinary, few, few and far between, flimsy, inconceivable, isolated, light, limited, magnificent, occasional, out of the ordinary, outstanding, preeminent, rarefied, recherché, remarkable, scanty*, scarce, scattered, seldom, semioccasional, short, singular, sparse, sporadic, strange, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, towering, uncommon, unfrequent, unheard of, unimaginable, unique, unlikely, unthinkable, unusual, unwonted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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