uncommon

  • (a) 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
  • (s) 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
    rare,

Synonyms

rare

Antonyms

common

See also

extraordinary unusual

Words of close approximity

uncommonly uncommonness