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Meaning of uncommon

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  uncommon
      adj 1: not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in
             amount or remarkable in character or kind; "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" [ant:
             {common}]
      2: marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or
         extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in
         June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of
         humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree" [syn: {rare},
         {uncommon}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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