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vanishingly rare

vanishingly rare adjective: extremely uncommon.

Adjective

vanishingly rare (not comparable)

  1. Extremely uncommon.
    • When it was released in 2005, Brokeback Mountain entered the collective consciousness in a way that is vanishingly rare for a film with queer subject matter.2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC

Questions about vanishingly rare

What does vanishingly rare mean?
Vanishingly rare means extremely uncommon.
What part of speech is vanishingly rare?
Vanishingly rare is an adjective.

Words near vanishingly rare in the dictionary

  1. vanishing twin
  2. vanishing twin syndrome
  3. vanishing twin syndromes
  4. vanishing twins
  5. vanishingly
  6. vanishingly rare
  7. vanishings
  8. vanishment
  9. vanishments
  10. vanisht
  11. Vanist

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