Definitions for rarefied

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rarefied rar·e·fied

Spelling: [rair-uh-fahyd]

IPA: /ˈrɛər əˌfaɪd/

Rarefied is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in rarefied (adeefirr).

Definitions for rarefied

adjective

1. extremely high or elevated; lofty; exalted:
2. of, belonging to, or appealing to an exclusive group; select; esoteric:

verb (used with object)

1. to make rare or rarer; make less dense:
2. to make more refined, spiritual, or exalted.

verb (used without object)

1. to become rare or less dense; become thinned:

Origin of rarefied

First recorded in 1625-35; rarefy + -ed²

Examples for rarefied

With that single gesture, he put a human face on this rarefied brand, one that last year boasted €826 million in revenue.

Science has told you that at such an altitude the air is rarefied.

But I will not press this view, which may be too rarefied and lofty for the vulgar mind.

It appears to respire as easily in the most rarefied air as on the seashore.

The birds had long abandoned us, for in that rarefied air they could not have flown.

She is not some rarefied doyenne whose choices carry moral clout.

These subtleties are easily missed from the national perspective and, apparently, inside the rarefied air of the NRCC.

They were intoxicated with rarefied atmosphere, not with alcohol.

St. Peter Damian damned her for “excessive delicacy” in preferring such a rarefied implement to her God-given hands.

Birmingham, after all, seems an unlikely breeding ground for so rarefied a creature as the author of In Patagonia.