It is not rare at all to live over ninety years.
Source: tatoeba (1547)
Rare
//ɹɛ//
Synonyms for "rare" (297 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (60)
Strong matches (89)
elegantelseeminentenigmaticesteemedestimableetherealexceedingexcellentexcellingexceptionalexiguousexquisiteextraordinaryfabulousfallenfantasticfantasticalfascinatingfew
Show 63 more words
finefine drawnfine-drawnfinerfinespunfirst-classfirst-rateflimsyfrailfreakgaseousgauzygirlishgoodgossamergracilegreaterhigherin ascendancyin short supplyin the ascendantincomparableincomprehensibleinconceivableincredibleinsubstantialintangiblelacylightlimitedlovelylusciousmajormarkedmarvelousmatchlessmeagermemorablemiraculousmiserlymistyniceniggardlynoblenot donenot that sortnot the samenot the typenot to be hadnotablenoteworthyoccasionalof a sortof another sortof choiceof markof sortsoffbeatone up onordinaryotherother thanotherwise
Adjective(6 words)
Related words (148)
out of printout of seasonout of stockout of the ordinaryout of this worldout-of-the-wayoutlandishoutstandingoverpaperypassing strangepeculiarpeerlessphenomenalpiddlingpoorpreciouspremiumprestigiousprodigious
Show 116 more words
prominentpuzzlingravingrechercheredremarkablerememberablereputablerivalingsaignantsalientscantscantyscatteredscrimpingscrimpyseldomseldom met withseldom seenselectsensationalshortsightsignalsingularskimpingskimpyslenderslenderishslightslight-madeslimslimmishslinkyslowsmallsoddensparsespecialsporadicspottysprinkledstingystrangestrikingstupendoussubtilesubtlesui generissupersuperiorsuperlativesupernaturalsurpassingsveltesylphliketellingtenuousthinthin on groundthin-bodiedthin-setthin-spunthinnedthinned-outthinnishthreadliketighttoppingtranscendenttranscendentaltranscendingunaccustomedunbakedunboileduncompactuncompresseduncookeduncustomaryundercookedunderdoneundreamed ofundreamed-ofunexpectedunfamiliarunforgettableunfrequentunheard ofunheard-ofunimaginableuniqueunordinaryunparalleledunprecedentedunsubstantialunthinkableunthought ofunthought-ofunusualunwonteduppervaguevaporouswasp waistedwasp-waistedwateredwatered downwatered-downwateryweakwillowywindywiredrawnwispywonderfulwondrous
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Synonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesat location
2 entriesdbpedia product
1 entriesderived
30 entriesShowing 16 of 30 words.
etymologically related_to
4 entrieshas context
3 entriesinstance of
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
10 entriesTranslations
169 translations across 74 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- rrallë adj (very uncommon)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σπάνιος adj (very uncommon)
Arabic
3 entries- نادر adj (very uncommon)
- نادر adj (very uncommon)
- نَادِر adj (very uncommon)
Asturian
1 entries- raru adj (very uncommon)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- nadir adj (very uncommon)
- seyrək adj (very uncommon)
Bashkir
1 entries- һирәк adj (very uncommon)
Basque
1 entries- arraro adj (very uncommon)
Belarusian
4 entries- з кроўю adj (cooked very lightly)
- з крывёй adj (cooked very lightly)
- непрасмажаны adj (cooked very lightly)
- рэ́дкі adj (very uncommon)
Bulgarian
4 entries- недоварен adj (cooked very lightly)
- недопечен adj (cooked very lightly)
- необикновен adj (very uncommon)
- разреден adj (thin density gas)
Catalan
3 entries- cru adj (cooked very lightly)
- rar adj (very uncommon)
- rar adj (thin density gas)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- نایاب adj (very uncommon)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 一分熟 adj (cooked very lightly)
- 稀少 adj (very uncommon)
- 稀有 adj (very uncommon)
- 稀疏 adj (very uncommon)
Church Slavic
1 entries- рѣдъкъ adj (very uncommon)
Czech
3 entries- krvavý adj (cooked very lightly)
- vzácný adj (very uncommon)
- řídký adj (very uncommon)
Danish
2 entries- rød adj (cooked very lightly)
- sjælden adj (very uncommon)
Dutch
3 entries- halfrauw adj (cooked very lightly)
- saignant adj (cooked very lightly)
- zeldzaam adj (very uncommon)
Esperanto
2 entries- malofta adj (very uncommon)
- rara adj (very uncommon)
Estonian
2 entries- erakordne adj (very uncommon)
- haruldane adj (very uncommon)
Faroese
2 entries- rárur adj (very uncommon)
- sjáldsamur adj (very uncommon)
Finnish
4 entries- harva adj (thin density gas)
- harvinainen adj (very uncommon)
- raaka adj (cooked very lightly)
- sisältä raaka adj (cooked very lightly)
French
3 entries- peu commun adj (very uncommon)
- rare adj (very uncommon)
- saignant adj (cooked very lightly)
Friulian
1 entries- râr adj (very uncommon)
Galician
1 entries- raro adj (very uncommon)
German
4 entries- blutig adj (cooked very lightly)
- englisch adj (cooked very lightly)
- rar adj (very uncommon)
- selten adj (very uncommon)
Greek
1 entries- σπάνιος adj (very uncommon)
Hebrew
3 entries- נִמְרָשׁ adj (cooked very lightly)
- נא adj (cooked very lightly)
- נדיר adj (very uncommon)
Hindi
4 entries- अप्राप्य adj (very uncommon)
- कमयाब adj (very uncommon)
- दुर्लभ adj (very uncommon)
- नादिर adj (very uncommon)
Hungarian
2 entries- ritka adj (very uncommon)
- véres adj (cooked very lightly)
Ido
1 entries- rara adj (very uncommon)
Indonesian
2 entries- jarang adj (very uncommon)
- langka adj (very uncommon)
Ingrian
1 entries- harva adj (very uncommon)
Irish
1 entries- annamh adj (very uncommon)
Italian
2 entries- al sangue adj (cooked very lightly)
- raro adj (very uncommon)
Japanese
3 entries- レア adj (cooked very lightly)
- 珍しい adj (very uncommon)
- 稀な adj (very uncommon)
Korean
3 entries- 드물다 adj (very uncommon)
- 희귀(稀貴)하다 adj (very uncommon)
- 희박(稀薄)하다 adj (thin density gas)
Latin
1 entries- rārus adj (very uncommon)
Latvian
1 entries- rets adj (very uncommon)
Lithuanian
1 entries- retas adj (very uncommon)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- rědki adj (very uncommon)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- bluddeg adj (cooked very lightly)
Macedonian
1 entries- редок adj (very uncommon)
Malay
2 entries- jarang adj (very uncommon)
- nadir adj (very uncommon)
Māori
4 entries- mangungu adj (cooked very lightly)
- mokomokorea adj (very uncommon)
- mokorea adj (very uncommon)
- mōmōhanga adj (very uncommon)
Navajo
2 entries- bídin hóyééʼ adj (very uncommon)
- tʼóó shichʼilígo adj (cooked very lightly)
Norman
1 entries- rare adj (very uncommon)
Norwegian
1 entries- skjelden adj (very uncommon)
Occitan
4 entries- arrarit adj (very uncommon)
- escàs adj (very uncommon)
- rar adj (very uncommon)
- rare adj (very uncommon)
Old English
2 entries- selden adj (very uncommon)
- seldlic adj (very uncommon)
Persian
3 entries- شاذ adj (very uncommon)
- نایاب adj (very uncommon)
- کمیاب adj (very uncommon)
Polish
2 entries- krwisty adj (cooked very lightly)
- rzadki adj (very uncommon)
Portuguese
3 entries- mal passado adj (cooked very lightly)
- rarefeito adj (thin density gas)
- raro adj (very uncommon)
Romanian
3 entries- rar adj (very uncommon)
- rarefiat adj (thin density gas)
- în sânge adj (cooked very lightly)
Romansch
2 entries- rar adj (very uncommon)
- rer adj (very uncommon)
Russian
4 entries- крова́вый adj (cooked very lightly)
- кровяни́стый adj (cooked very lightly)
- непрожа́ренный adj (cooked very lightly)
- разрежённый adj (thin density gas)
Sanskrit
2 entries- दुर्लभ adj (very uncommon)
- विरल adj (very uncommon)
Sardinian
1 entries- raru adj (very uncommon)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- ainneamh adj (very uncommon)
- gann adj (very uncommon)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- rijédak adj (very uncommon)
- rédak adj (very uncommon)
- ре́дак adj (very uncommon)
- рије́дак adj (very uncommon)
Sicilian
1 entries- raru adj (very uncommon)
Simbanese
1 entries- arôre adj (very uncommon)
Slovak
2 entries- riedky adj (very uncommon)
- vzácny adj (very uncommon)
Slovene
1 entries- rédek adj (very uncommon)
Spanish
4 entries- crudo adj (cooked very lightly)
- insólito adj (very uncommon)
- jugoso adj (cooked very lightly)
- muy incomún adj (very uncommon)
Swedish
3 entries- blodig adj (cooked very lightly)
- ovanlig adj (very uncommon)
- sällsynt adj (very uncommon)
Tagalog
1 entries- bihira adj (very uncommon)
Telugu
2 entries- అరుదు adj (very uncommon)
- దుర్లభము adj (very uncommon)
Turkish
3 entries- ender adj (very uncommon)
- nadide adj (very uncommon)
- nadir adj (very uncommon)
Ukrainian
2 entries- рі́дкісний adj (very uncommon)
- рідки́й adj (very uncommon)
Urdu
1 entries- شاذ adj (very uncommon)
Venetan
1 entries- raro adj (very uncommon)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hiếm adj (very uncommon)
Welsh
1 entries- prin adj (very uncommon)
Yiddish
1 entries- נישט־דערבראָטן adj (cooked very lightly)
Zazaki
1 entries- nadir adj (very uncommon)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
It is not rare for girls today to talk as if they were boys.
Source: tatoeba (18702)
The importation of rare wild animals to this country is strictly prohibited.
Source: tatoeba (20611)
It is true; she is a rare beauty.
Source: tatoeba (21687)
Showing 4 of 21 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.