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Definitions: Rarified |
RarifiedAdjective1. Having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air". 2. Reserved for an elite group. 3. Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rarified" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references) |
Synonyms: RarifiedSynonyms: exalted (adj), high-flown (adj), high-minded (adj), idealistic (adj), lofty (adj), noble-minded (adj), rare (adj), rarefied (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rarified |
| English words defined with "rarified": ichor ♦ low density ♦ rarity ♦ tenuity. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, in certain rarified circles. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Rarified" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Rarified" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "rarified"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | iltfattig luft (oxygen rarified air). (various references) | |
French | mélange d'air pauvre en oxygène (oxygen rarified air). (various references) | |
German | sauerstoffarmes Luftgemisch (oxygen rarified air). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 稀薄 (diluted, lean, rarefied, sparse, thin, weak), 希薄 (diluted, lean, rarefied, sparse, thin, weak). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きはく (diluted, drive, lean, rarefied, soul, sparse, spirit, thin, vigor, weak). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arifiedray.(various references) | |
Spanish | ralo (insubstantial, scraggly, thin). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Rarified" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rareafied, rarefield, rareified, rawified, reprofiled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-i-r-r" | |
-2 letters: airier, arider, faired, fairer, raider. | |
-3 letters: afire, aider, aired, airer, darer, deair, direr, drear, drier, fader, fared, farer, feria, fired, firer, friar, fried, frier, irade, radii, rared, redia, rider, rifer. | |
-4 letters: aide, arid, dare, deaf, dear, defi, dire, fade, fair, fard, fare, fear, fiar, fire, frae, idea, ired, irid, raid, rare, read, rear, reif, ride, rife. | |
-5 letters: aid, air, are, arf, die, ear, era, err, fad, far, fed, fer, fid, fie, fir, ire, rad, red, ref, rei, ria, rid, rif. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-i-r-r" | |
+2 letters: fratricide. | |
+3 letters: fratricides. | |
+4 letters: airfreighted, ferricyanide. | |
+5 letters: defibrillator, ferricyanides, foreordaining. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 72 69 66 69 65 64 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- .-. .. ..-. .. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a r i f i e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0072 0069 0066 0069 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5267847572757170 |
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