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rarefied

adjective

: understood by only a small group of people : only for people who know about a particular thing

of air : not having much oxygen because of being high up in the atmosphere

Full Definition of RAREFIED

1
:  being less dense
2
:  of, relating to, or interesting to a select group :  esoteric
3
:  very high

Variants of RAREFIED

rarefied also rarified
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First Known Use of RAREFIED

14th century

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