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rarified

rarified is the alternative spelling of rarefied.

rarified is the simple past and past participle of rarify.

Meaning of rarefied

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. Less dense than usual; thin.
    • The air at high altitudes at the top of mountains is rarefied.

Forms of rarified

comparativemore rarified
superlativemost rarified

Questions about rarified

What is rarified the alternative spelling of?
Rarified is the alternative spelling of rarefied.

Words near rarified in the dictionary

  1. Rarick
  2. Raricks
  3. rariconstant
  4. rarification
  5. rarifications
  6. rarified
  7. rarifier
  8. rarifiers
  9. rarifies
  10. rarify
  11. rarifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rarified (page history and authors); rarefied (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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