rare
/rɛː/
US pronunciation
American sound/rɛː/
rare
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US voice -> rare
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(က) ရှားပါးသော။
a rare book/ bird/ butterfly.
(ခ) ဖြစ်ခေါင့်ဖြစ်ခဲ။ မကြုံစဖူးဖြစ်သော။ ကြုံတောင့် ကြုံခဲ။
a rare disease/ occurrence/ sight ❍ I only saw her on the rare occasions I went into her family's shop. ❍ It is extremely rare for the weather in April to be this hot. See also RARITY
❏ rarely adv ရှားရှားပါးပါး။ ရံဖန်ရံခါမျှသာ။ ကြုံ တောင့်ကြုံခဲ။ ဖြစ်ခေါင့်ဖြစ်ခဲ။
an odd little man who rarely spoke ❍ She is rarely seen in public nowadays. ❍ a rarely-performed play ❍ (fml ) Rarely has the President looked so ill at ease.
အပြင်ပန်း ကျက်နပ်ရုံမျှ ကင်ထားသော (အမဲ)။
He likes his steak (medium-) rare.
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uncommon, unusual, exceptional, atypical, extraordinary, odd, singular, admirable, attenuate, attenuated, bloody, blue, choice, dainty, deficient, delicate, elegant, erratic, excellent, exquisite, extreme, few, few and far between, fine, flimsy, great, half-cooked, half-raw, incomparable, inconceivable, infrequent, intermittent, invaluable, isolated, juicy, light, limited, matchless, moderately done, nearly raw, not done, occasional, out of the ordinary, peerless, pink, precious, priceless, rarefied, rarely done, recherché, red, rich, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, select, semioccasional, short, sparse, sporadic, strange, subtile, subtle, superb, superlative, tenuous, thin, undercooked, underdone, unfrequent, unheard of, unimaginable, unique, unlikely, unthinkable, unwonted, valuable
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