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uncommon |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Uncommon \Un*com"mon\, a. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: uncommon adj 1: not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability" [ant: {common}] 2: marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree" [syn: {rare}]
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