rarefied
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
rarefied (comparative more rarefied, superlative most rarefied)
- Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select.
- Philosophical debates can be quite rarefied.
- Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value.
- (of a gas etc.) Less dense than usual; thin.
- The air at high altitudes at the top of mountains is rarefied.
Translations
distant from the lives and concerns of ordinary people
elevated in style or nature
less dense than usual
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