Main entry: uncommon
Definition: not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind
Usage: 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
Antonyms: common
Definition: having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
Antonyms: general
Definition: a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
Antonyms: universal, universal proposition
Definition: (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class
Antonyms: usual
Definition: occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure
Main entry: rare, uncommon
Definition: marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind
Usage: 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
Antonyms: ordinary
Definition: not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree