adj
Meaning 1
Rare; not readily found; unusual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Bald eagles are an uncommon sighting in this state.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
uncommon
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʌnˈkɒmən/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɒmən
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 N K AA1 M AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Remarkable; exceptional.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The diamond was of uncommon size
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
Exceedingly, exceptionally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, dialectal, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- uncommon birds
- frost and floods are uncommon during these months
- doing an uncommon amount of business
- an uncommon liking for money
- he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: common
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind-J.R.Lowell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- what is so rare as a day in June
- a rare skill
- an uncommon sense of humor
- she was kind to an uncommon degree
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rare
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English common English uncommon From un- + common.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: необикновен (neobiknoven) — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Dutch: zeldzaam — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Esperanto: nekomuna — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Finnish: harvinainen — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Finnish: epätavallinen — rare; not readily found; unusual
- German: ungebräuchlich — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Irish: éagsúlach — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Japanese: 珍しい (mezurashii) — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Māori: haraki — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Māori: waraki — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Old English: unġewunelīċ — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Polish: niezwykły — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Portuguese: incomum — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Romanian: rar — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Romanian: necomun — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Russian: необы́чный (neobýčnyj) — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Spanish: poco común — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Spanish: nada común — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Spanish: extraño — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Spanish: insólito — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Spanish: incomún — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Swedish: rar — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Swedish: sällsynt — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Swedish: ovanlig — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Welsh: anghyffredin — rare; not readily found; unusual
- Bulgarian: особен (osoben) — remarkable; exceptional
- Bulgarian: изключителен (izključitelen) — remarkable; exceptional
- Dutch: uitzonderlijk — remarkable; exceptional
- Dutch: exceptioneel — remarkable; exceptional
- Finnish: poikkeuksellinen — remarkable; exceptional
- German: ungewöhnlich — remarkable; exceptional
- Japanese: 非凡な (hibon na) — remarkable; exceptional
- Japanese: 特異な (tokui na) — remarkable; exceptional
- Portuguese: incomum — remarkable; exceptional
- Portuguese: excepcional — remarkable; exceptional
- Spanish: insólito — remarkable; exceptional
- Swedish: remarkabel — remarkable; exceptional
- Swedish: exceptionell — remarkable; exceptional