rarefied

English

Alternative forms

• rarified

Adjective

rarefied (comparative more rarefied, superlative most rarefied)

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

   Philosophical debates can be quite rarefied.

2. Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value.
3. (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

• German: abgehoben (de), abstrakt (de), realitätsfern, entrückt (de)
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elevated in style or nature

• German: erhaben (de), sublim (de), anspruchsvoll (de), exklusiv (de), verfeinert (de)
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less dense than usual

• Czech: ředěný, zředěný
• French: raréfié (fr)
• German: verdünnt (de), dünn (de)
• Manx: thannit
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• Polish: rozrzedzony
• Portuguese: rarefeito (pt) m
• Russian: разрежённый (ru) (razrežónnyj)
• Volapük: feinüköl

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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} rarificado (es), ^{(please verify)} enrarecido (es)
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Verb

rarefied

1. simple past and past participle of rarefy