Usually means: Not frequently encountered or usual.
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  1. uncommon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. uncommon: Merriam-Webster
  3. uncommon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. uncommon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. uncommon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. uncommon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Uncommon: Wordnik
  8. uncommon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. uncommon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. uncommon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. uncommon: Dictionary.com
  12. uncommon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. uncommon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Uncommon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Uncommon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. uncommon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. uncommon: Rhymezone
  18. Uncommon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. uncommon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. UNCOMMON: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. uncommon: FreeDictionary.org
  22. uncommon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. uncommon: Wordnik
  24. uncommon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. uncommon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  26. uncommon: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uncommon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uncommon: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (uncommon)

▸ adjective:  Rare; not readily found; unusual.
▸ adjective:  Remarkable; exceptional.
▸ adverb:  (archaic, UK, dialect) Exceedingly, exceptionally.

Similar:
unusual, extraordinary, unwonted, exceptional, special, rare, especial, particular, common, rarity, more...

Opposite:
common, ordinary, usual, typical, standard

Types:
rare, unusual, more...

Phrases:
Uncommon Valor, Light From Uncommon Stars, Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs, uncommon things, uncommon in the extreme, more...

Colors:
    amaranth,     xanadu,     gamboge,     falu red,     zaffre, more...


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Similar:
unusual, extraordinary, unwonted, exceptional, special, rare, especial, particular, common, rarity, more...

Opposite:
common, ordinary, usual, typical, standard

Types:
rare, unusual, more...

Phrases:
Uncommon Valor, Light From Uncommon Stars, Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs, uncommon things, uncommon in the extreme, not uncommon, uncommon object, uncommon word, more uncommon, opposite of uncommon, more...

Colors:
    amaranth,     xanadu,     gamboge,     falu red,     zaffre, more...



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