uncommon
- not common; unusual; rare: an uncommon word.
- unusual in amount or degree; above the ordinary: an uncommon amount of mail.
- exceptional; remarkable.
Origin of uncommon
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infrequent, unusual, rare, surprising, remarkable, exceptional, noteworthy, singular, abnormal, startling, extraordinary, strange, egregious, bizarre, unique, odd, peculiar, unimaginable, unparalleled, unthinkableExamples from the Web for uncommon
Contemporary Examples of uncommon
Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
These negotiations are not uncommon on junketed studio films.
Although often this is considered proof positive of guilt at trial, it is not an uncommon occurrence in false confessions.
Love poems between aristocratic women were not uncommon at the time, as long as they stayed safely on the side of friendship.
Compulsive writing, or hypergraphia, is a well-known, if uncommon, symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.
Historical Examples of uncommon
The doctor there speaks of 'our steel pens,' as if they were not at all uncommon.
The Story of the Invention of Steel PensHenry Bore
Her spirits are remarkably high—not an uncommon effect of laudanum.
Alice, or The Mysteries, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
They was all hard up there, Mr Plornish said, uncommon hard up, to be sure.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
That's a woman who observes and reflects in an uncommon manner.
Life And Adventures Of Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens
It gives us a new, and quite an uncommon interest in the dinner.
Life And Adventures Of Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens
uncommon
- outside or beyond normal experience, conditions, etc; unusual
- in excess of what is normalan uncommon liking for honey
- an archaic word for uncommonly (def. 2)