| Main Entry: | rarefied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exclusive |
Synonyms: |
cliquish, elevated, esoteric, exalted, lofty, private, select |
Antonyms: |
commonplace |
| Main Entry: | rarefy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | thin |
Synonyms: |
attenuate, cook, cut back, cut*, decrease, delete, diminish, disperse, doctor, edit, emaciate, expand, extenuate, irrigate, lace, needle, prune, reduce, refine, shave, spike, trim, water, water down, weaken, weed out |
| Main Entry: | airy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicate or ethereal |
Synonyms: |
dainty, diaphanous, flimsy, fragile, frail, frivolous, illusory, imaginary, immaterial, intangible, light, rare, rarefied, tenuous, thin, vaporous, visionary, volatile, weightless, wispy |
Antonyms: |
heavy |
| Main Entry: | clarify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | purify |
Synonyms: |
clean, cleanse, depurate, distill, filter, rarefy, refine |
Antonyms: |
dirty, muddle, muddy |
| Main Entry: | distill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make pure; draw out something |
Synonyms: |
boil down, brew, clarify, concentrate, condense, cook, cut, cut down, cut to the bone, dribble, drip, drop, evaporate, express, extract, ferment, get to the meat, infuse, precipitate, press, press out, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, squeeze out, steam, sublimate, trickle, trim, vaporize, volatilize |
Antonyms: |
dirty, pollute |
| Main Entry: | ethereal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicate, heavenly |
Synonyms: |
aerial, airy, celestial, dainty, divine, empyreal, empyrean, exquisite, fairy, filmy, fine, gaseous, ghostly, gossamer, impalpable, insubstantial, intangible, light, rarefied, refined, spiritual, sublime, subtle, supernal, tenuous, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, vaporous, vapory |
Antonyms: |
earthly, indelicate, worldly |
| Main Entry: | fade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dwindle, die out |
Synonyms: |
abate, attenuate, clear, decline, deliquesce, deteriorate, die away, die on vine, dim, diminish, disappear, disperse, dissolve, droop, ebb, etiolate, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, fag out, fail, fall, flag, fold, hush, languish, lessen, melt, melt away, moderate, perish, peter out, poop out, quiet, rarefy, shrivel, sink, slack off, taper, thin, tire, tucker out, vanish, wane, waste away, weaken, wilt, wither |
Antonyms: |
enhance, improve, recover, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | rare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exceptional, infrequent |
Synonyms: |
attenuate, attenuated, deficient, extraordinary, few, few and far between, flimsy, inconceivable, isolated, light, limited, occasional, out of the ordinary, rarefied, recherché, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, semioccasional, short, singular, sparse, sporadic, strange, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, uncommon, unfrequent, unheard of, unimaginable, unique, unlikely, unthinkable, unusual, unwonted |
| Notes: | rare means not widely known or recurring only at long intervals or not widely distributed; scarce means not enough or deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand |
Antonyms: |
common, frequent, regular, typical, usual |
| Main Entry: | refine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | purify |
Synonyms: |
clarify, cleanse, distill, filter, process, rarefy, strain |
Antonyms: |
corrupt, dirty, pollute |
| Main Entry: | refined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cleaned of impurities |
Synonyms: |
aerated, boiled down, clarified, clean, cleansed, distilled, drained, expurgated, filtered, processed, pure, purified, rarefied, strained, washed |
Antonyms: |
corrupt, dirtied, polluted |