adjective
- Not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind.
- usage: "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"
- Marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: rare
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