rare

IPA: rˈɛr

Very uncommon; scarce.
(of a gas) Thin; of low density.
(UK, slang) Good; enjoyable.
(cooking) Particularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.
(obsolete) Early.

Examples of "rare" in Sentences

But many people are puzzled by the term "rare earth."
It's not that those rare new classics or rare new breakthrough works can't happen, it's that they are _rare_.
Today, rare earths are a global story-and a global investment opportunity-even if the term rare earth is somewhat misleading.
Mexico's government says the program was aimed at raising public awareness of what it calls a rare success in Mexico, creating an honest police force.
NOTE TO EDITORS: Scientists use the term rare-earth elements to describe 17 elements, including: scandium and yttrium, plus the 15 so-called lanthanides.
In his own thoroughly strange 1946 novel Life Comes to Seathorpe, Neil Bell appropriates the term "rare books" to designate members of a new, dissident literary canon.
If you think about it, even the term rare coins connotes scarcity, which is an important attribute of all successful products, whether they be collectibles or everyday consumer items.
"Well," announced he, as he put down the box and pulled his adikey over his head, "I were seein 'Santa Claus th' day an 'givin' he a rare scoldin 'for passin' my maid by these two year -- a _rare_ scoldin '-- an'