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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
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Variants of RAREFIED
rarefied also rarified
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First Known Use of RAREFIED
14th century
Rhymes with RAREFIED
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