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Adjective rarefied has 2 senses

• rarefied(s = adj.all) rare, rarified - having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
• rarefied(s = adj.all) elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarified, sublime - of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"

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rarefied

adulterated, air-built, airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, chimerical, clannish, cliquish, cloud-built, cut, dainty, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, dreamlike, elevated, esoteric, ethereal, exalted, exclusive, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, high, illusory, imaginary, insubstantial, lacy, lean, light, lofty, misty, noble, papery, phantomlike, private, rare, reduced, scant, scanty, select, shadowy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, sparse, spirituous, sublime, subtile, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unsubstantial, vague, vaporous, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy

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Rarity

N rarity, tenuity, absence of solidity, subtility, subtilty, subtlety, sponginess, compressibility, rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization, vaporization, evaporation, diffusion, gassification, ether, rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight, light, cavernous, spongy, rarefied, unsubstantial, uncompact, incompressed, rarefiable.

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