The air is rarefied on high mountains.
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Rarefied
Synonyms for "rarefied" (110 found)
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7 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- възвишен adj (elevated in style or nature)
- езотеричен adj (distant from the lives and concerns of ordinary people)
- разреден adj (less dense than usual)
Czech
2 entries- zředěný adj (less dense than usual)
- ředěný adj (less dense than usual)
Esperanto
2 entries- maldensa adj (less dense than usual)
- rara adj (less dense than usual)
French
1 entries- raréfié adj (less dense than usual)
German
4 entries- abgehoben adj (distant from the lives and concerns of ordinary people)
- abstrakt adj (distant from the lives and concerns of ordinary people)
- anspruchsvoll adj (elevated in style or nature)
- dünn adj (less dense than usual)
Irish
1 entries- séimh adj (less dense than usual)
Manx
1 entries- thannit adj (less dense than usual)
Polish
1 entries- rozrzedzony adj (less dense than usual)
Portuguese
1 entries- rarefeito adj (less dense than usual)
Russian
2 entries- разрежённый adj (less dense than usual)
- утончённый adj (elevated in style or nature)
Spanish
4 entries- enrarecido adj (less dense than usual)
- rareado adj (less dense than usual)
- rarefecho adj (less dense than usual)
- rarificado adj (less dense than usual)
Ukrainian
1 entries- розрі́джений adj (less dense than usual)
Volapük
1 entries- feinüköl adj (less dense than usual)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Johnston was the first to come to consciousness as the balloon sank into less rarefied atmosphere.
Source: tatoeba (11955559)
Philosophical debates can be quite rarefied.
Source: wiktionary
The country gentry of old time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below.
Source: wiktionary
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