rare
adjective
[ rɛː ]
• (of an event, situation, or condition) not occurring very often.
• "a rare genetic disorder"
Similar:
infrequent,
few and far between,
scarce,
sparse,
scattered,
thin on the ground,
golden,
like gold dust,
as scarce as hen's teeth,
occasional,
limited,
odd,
isolated,
sporadic,
intermittent,
unaccustomed,
unwonted,
out of the common,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘widely spaced, infrequent’): from Latin rarus .
rare
adjective
• (of meat, especially beef) lightly cooked, so that the inside is still red.
• "rare roast beef"
Origin:
late 18th century: variant of obsolete rear ‘half-cooked’ (used to refer to soft-boiled eggs, from the mid 17th to mid 19th centuries).
