Word Meanings - RARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Early. Rude mechanicals that rare and late Work in the market place. Chapman.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RARE)

• Choice
• Select
• exquisite
• precious
• dainty
• cherished
• valuable
• excellent
• rare
• Curious
• Inquiring
• inquisitive
• scrutinizing
• prying
• meddling
• singular
• searching
• interrogative
• peeping
• peering
• unique
• odd
• recondite
• Dainty
• refined
• tasty
• luxurious
• epicurean
• Exceptional
• Rare
• peculiar
• uncommon
• irregular
• unusual
• abnormal
• Exquisite
• delicate
• perfect
• matchless
• intense
• consummate
• delicious

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RARE)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to RARE)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• MEDDLING
  Meddlesome. Macaulay.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• TASTY
  1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
• INQUISITIVELY
  In an inquisitive manner. The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.
• PRYTANIS
  A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
• PRYAN
  See PRIAN
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• PEERT
  See PEART
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• PEERAGE
  1. The rank or dignity of a peer. Blackstone. 2. The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. Milton.
• PEERESS
  The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.
• UNIQUE
  Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole. -- U*nique"ly, adv. -- U*nique"ness, n.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• OUTPEER
  To excel. Shak.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• LEPRY
  Leprosy. Holland.