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
1Other words for uncommon
Other words from uncommon
- un·com·mon·ness, noun
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How to use uncommon in a sentence
It’s not uncommon for a seller and buyer to agree on a price and then hope the appraisal is as high as possible.
Politics Report: Forged Footnote 15 | Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts | September 12, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoEric Topol, a cardiologist and clinical-trials expert at the Scripps Research Translational Institute in San Diego, said such pauses in large studies are “not uncommon at all.”
Some scientists downplay significance of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine trial halt | Claire Zillman, reporter | September 9, 2020 | FortuneIt’s not uncommon to feel like you’re letting your fitness tracker down when you don’t hit your goals.
Amazon’s new fitness tracker listens to your voice to figure out your mood | Stan Horaczek | September 2, 2020 | Popular-ScienceRecombinetics has since insisted that the leftover plasmid DNA was likely harmless and stressed that this sort of genetic slipup is not uncommon.
Biotechnology Could Change the Cattle Industry. Will It Succeed? | Dyllan Furness | August 16, 2020 | Singularity HubInternational cricket leagues are cropping up from Canada to Nepal, and it’s not uncommon for players to represent seven different teams in a single year.
Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone | Samantha Levine | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThese 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.
How the U.S. Justice System Screws Prisoners with Disabilities | Elizabeth Picciuto | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLove poems between aristocratic women were not uncommon at the time, as long as they stayed safely on the side of friendship.
Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun | Katie Baker | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCompulsive writing, or hypergraphia, is a well-known, if uncommon, symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.
The Seizure Medication That Turns You Into a Poet | Cat Ferguson | September 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLarger amounts are not uncommon in fevers, gastrointestinal disturbances, and certain nervous disorders.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddIncrease of hemoglobin, or hyperchromemia, is uncommon, and is probably more apparent than real.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddA gaunt, hard-featured domestic completed this interesting family, and she was uncommon too.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowOn the other hand, except in children, where the percentage is normally low, pus is uncommon with less than 80 per cent.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddSuch a sight was not uncommon in the streets of Seoul, and Yung Pak knew well its meaning.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. Pike
British Dictionary definitions for uncommon
/ (ʌnˈkɒmən) /
outside or beyond normal experience, conditions, etc; unusual
in excess of what is normal: an uncommon liking for honey
an archaic word for uncommonly (def. 2)
Derived forms of uncommon
- uncommonness, noun
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