The Clue
An alternative to medium (4 letter answer)
The Answer
RARE
Tags
Notes
The answer RARE is very common and appears about once every 36 puzzles.
Related Clues
"Bloody"
Infrequent
One-in-a-million
Recherché
Scarce
Singular
Special
Uncommon
Underdone
Unusual
Unwonted
Adjective for cerium
Beef order
Book classification
Excellent, as wine
Hard to find
Lightly cooked
Opposite of well
Pink, as steak
Pretty pink
Reddish pink
Seldom seen
In short supply
Steak order
"Still mooing"
Uncommonly good
Unusually excellent
Very unusual
Like Ben Jonson
Like a day in June
On the hoof, in lunch counter lingo
Like a 1943 copper penny
Like proverbial hen's teeth
Seen once in a blue moon
Definition
RARE as an adjective:
1. not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness; "a rare word"; "rare books"
2. recurring only at long intervals; "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events"
3. not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of green in the desert"
4. (rare, uncommon) = 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"
5. (rare, rarefied, rarified) = having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
6. (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside; "rare roast beef"