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rarefied

adjective

Meaning

  1. Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select.
  2. Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value.
  3. (of a gas etc.) Less dense than usual; thin.
  4. To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense
  5. To expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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