rarefied
Collocations
5ADJ.
high, social
VERB + RAREFIED
air, lived, sank
RAREFIED + NOUN
atmosphere, mountains
PREP.
in, into, on
ADV.
quite
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.
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5Philosophical debates can be quite rarefied.
WiktionaryThe 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.
WiktionaryOf 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
WiktionaryThe air is rarefied on high mountains.
Tatoeba · #241273Johnston was the first to come to consciousness as the balloon sank into less rarefied atmosphere.
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