Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Uncommon"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Uncommon \Un*com"mon\, a.
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable;
strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold
or heat; uncommon courage.
Syn: Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- {Un*com"mon*ly},
adv. -- {Un*com"mon*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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