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What is the adjective for rarify?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs rarefy and rare which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

rarefied
  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.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “But unlike the tradition of poetry as a rarefied pursuit, the Liverpool poets took their writing to the stage and rapidly developed a huge following.”
      “What emerges is a usually very rarefied discussion of the relationships between past, present, and future.”
rare
  1. Very uncommon; scarce.
  2. (of a gas) Thin; of low density.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Whenever he takes a rare break from work, he spends his spare time engaging in cross-fit training.”
      “The rally resulted in a rare moment of national joy, and engendered hope about the future of the country.”
      “Deakin was a rare talent who made the commonplace magical and powerful.”
rare
  1. (cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Whenever he takes a rare break from work, he spends his spare time engaging in cross-fit training.”
      “The rally resulted in a rare moment of national joy, and engendered hope about the future of the country.”
      “Deakin was a rare talent who made the commonplace magical and powerful.”
raresome
  1. Characterised or marked by rareness
rarified
  1. Alternative spelling of rarefied
rarish
  1. Alternative form of rareish
rarefiable
  1. Capable of being rarefied.
rareish
  1. (rare) Somewhat rare.
raring
  1. Eager.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Whitehead was satisfied with her own performance because she was just returning from injury but now she is back to full fitness and raring to go.”
      “There and then, after a couple of snootfuls of the devil brew, he was raring to go.”
      “All-natural aphrodisiacs can get even the most flaccid of men and frigid of women in the mood and raring to go.”
rare
  1. (obsolete) early
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Whenever he takes a rare break from work, he spends his spare time engaging in cross-fit training.”
      “The rally resulted in a rare moment of national joy, and engendered hope about the future of the country.”
      “Deakin was a rare talent who made the commonplace magical and powerful.”
rarer
  1. comparative form of rare: more rare
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It lists all the rarer plants of the district, and the zoophytes, and devotes a whole chapter to geology.”
      “Besides the aromatic oils and dried flowers, the shop sells rarer products such as seeds and bonsai.”
      “The rarer types of bladder cancer include squamous cell carcinomas and adenocarcinomas, which have a different cell structure.”
rarest
  1. superlative form of rare: most rare
  2. Examples:
    1. “This part of the National Park is home to some of the rarest creatures in the country such as adders, otters, goshawks and water vole.”
      “Those who brandish or discharge firearms in a public place would, in all but the rarest cases, be locked up.”
      “But it came down to last-second heroics and breathless moments provided by the rarest of talents.”
rarefying
rared
  1. simple past tense and past participle of rare
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