Usually means: Less dense, refined, or elevated.
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  1. rarefied: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rarefied: Merriam-Webster
  3. rarefied: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rarefied: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rarefied: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rarefied: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rarefied, rarefied: Wordnik
  8. rarefied: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rarefied: Wiktionary
  10. rarefied: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rarefied: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rarefied, rarefied: Dictionary.com
  13. rarefied: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Rarefied: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Rarefied: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. rarefied: Rhymezone
  17. Rarefied: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. rarefied: FreeDictionary.org
  19. rarefied: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. rarefied: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rarefied: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rarefied: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. rarefied: Medical dictionary

(Note: See rarefy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select.
adjective:  Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value.
adjective:  (of a gas etc.) Less dense than usual; thin.

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