adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 (often disapproving) understood or experienced by only a very small group of people who share a particular area of knowledge or activity:
the rarefied atmosphere of academic life
2 (of air) containing less OXYGEN than usual:
Climbers may experience difficulty breathing in the rarefied air at high altitudes.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rarefied is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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