rarefied

adj 3

Definitions

adj

Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select.

Philosophical debates can be quite rarefied.

The country gentry of old time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below.

Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value.

Less dense than usual; thin.

The air at high altitudes at the top of mountains is rarefied.

Collocations

ADJ.

high, social

VERB + RAREFIED

air, lived, sank

RAREFIED + NOUN

atmosphere, mountains

PREP.

in, into, on

ADV.

quite

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — of high moral or intellectual value

adjective — having low density

rare
rarified

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Philosophical debates can be quite rarefied.

Wiktionary

The country gentry of old time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below.

Wiktionary

Of course, Beaumont was the real boss; but he lived in the rarefied atmosphere of some Olympian height from which he could distinguish nothing smaller than an international crisis or a split in the Ca

Wiktionary

The air is rarefied on high mountains.

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Johnston was the first to come to consciousness as the balloon sank into less rarefied atmosphere.

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