uncommon
/ʌnˈkɒmən/
US pronunciation
American sound/ʌnˈkɒmən/
ʌnˈkɒmən
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- 3 syllables
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- 2nd syllable stress
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ʌn - ˈkɒmən -> uncommon
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- ‘They are uncommon to rare in the western Washington lowlands during migration, in March.’
- ‘New York must have been getting to me, because it was not uncommon for a stranger to spark up a conversation down here.’
- ‘And all four are very unusual and uncommon topics for discussion amongst friends.’
- ‘It is especially important in this area as it supports many rare and nationally uncommon species of plant.’
- ‘Yeast infections of the skin in older children, teens, and adults are uncommon.’
- ‘Crime, rather than being abnormal and uncommon, may be considered a routine part of life.’
- ‘It describes a circumstance which is such as to form an exception, which is out of the ordinary course, or unusual, or special, or uncommon.’
- ‘Now it is not uncommon to hear an adult swear in front of their children in public, and the kids to curse back.’
- ‘However, it is not uncommon for relatives of either the husband or the wife to stay with them for a time.’
- ‘It is very uncommon for strangers to know how to use althea that you just collected.’
- ‘Like, Darren, I have a fairly uncommon name - however, there are a couple of others out there.’
- ‘The case presented here represents an unusual presentation of an uncommon disease.’
- ‘Endemic to the Solomon Islands, this eagle is usually regarded as rare or uncommon.’
- ‘Turkey Vultures are uncommon to rare in the drier portions of the Columbia Basin, even as migrants.’
- ‘Single crystals of two or more different colours are not uncommon, making unusual multicoloured faceted stones.’
- ‘Such an ensemble was uncommon for ordinary ladies in the age, but Raven was far from ordinary.’
- ‘My two children have uncommon names that are easy to pronounce and spell.’
- ‘Such behaviour, unusual as it was, was not uncommon in Surrealist circles in Paris in the 1930s.’
- ‘Their numbers can vary considerably from year to year, but they are always considered uncommon or rare.’
- ‘The confusion of national and personal interest is not uncommon among dictators, however urbane.’
Synonyms
rare, unusual, infrequent, scarce, special, exceptional, singular, aberrant, abnormal, almost never, anomalous, arcane, bizarre, curious, curiously, distinctive, eccentric, egregious, exotic, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, few, finely, freakish, hardly ever, incomparable, inimitable, irregular, nondescript, notable, noteworthy, noticeably, novel, now then, odd, on rare occasions, once in blue moon, original, out of the ordinary, out of the way, outre, outré, outstanding, peculiar, prodigious, queer, rarely, remarkable, remarkably, scarcely ever, seldom, so much, sporadic, startling, strange, superior, surprising, surprisingly, terrifically, unaccustomed, unconventional, uncustomary, unfamiliar, unfrequently, unheard of, unimaginable, unique, unoften, unorthodox, unparalleled, unprecedented, unthinkable, unusually, unwonted, very different, weird, wonderful
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