rarefied

Definitions

1. 1

   Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people

   Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select.

   • Philosophical debates can be quite rarefied.
   • The country gentry of old time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below.
   • Of course, Beaumont was the real boss; but he lived in the rarefied atmosphere of some Olympian height from which he could distinguish nothing smaller than an international crisis or a split in the Cabinet.
2. 2

   Elevated in style or nature, sublime

   Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value.

3. 3

   Less dense than usual

   Less dense than usual; thin.

   • The air at high altitudes at the top of mountains is rarefied.
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   1. 4

      simple past and past participle of rarefy

The neighborhood