adjective. Infrequently occurring; uncommon.

adjective. Excellent; extraordinary.

adjective. Thin in density; rarefied.

adjective. Cooked just a short time so as to retain juice and redness.

Early.

Not thoroughly cooked; partly cooked; underdone: applied to meat: as, rare beef; a rare chop.

A dialectal form of rear.

An obsolete form of roar.

Thin; porous; not dense; of slight consistence; rarefied; having relatively little matter in a given volume: as, a rare substance; the rare atmosphere of high mountains.

Thinly scattered; coming or occurring at wide intervals; sparse; dispersed.

Very uncommon or infrequent; seldom occurring or to be found; hardly ever met with.

Hence Remarkable from uncommonness; especially, uncommonly good, excellent, valuable, fine, or the like; of an excellence seldom met with.

Synonyms Rare, Scarce, infrequent, unusual. Rare implies that only few of the kind exist: as, perfect diamonds are rare. Scarce properly implies a previous or usual condition of greater abundance. Rare, means that there are much fewer of a kind to be found than may be found where scarce would apply.

Singular, extraordinary, incomparable, choice.

adjective. Early.

adjective. Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone.

adjective. Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual.

adjective. Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.

adjective. Thinly scattered; dispersed.

adjective. Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin.

adjective. Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).

adjective. Very uncommon; scarce.

adjective. thin; of low density

verb. To rear, rise up, start backwards.

verb. To rear, bring up, raise.

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

adjective. not widely distributed

adjective. not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness

adjective. having low density

adjective. recurring only at long intervals

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

"It's not that those rare new classics or rare new breakthrough works can't happen, it's that they are _rare_."

infrequent  unusual  

extraordinary  infrequent  raw  scarce  thin  

Adair  Aer  Altair  Astaire  Ayre  

brilliant  extraordinary  unique  wonderful  

Early  a cut above  above  admirable  adulterated