rare bird

Noun

Meaning

a rare or unique person

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

rara avis marvel maverick original character individual freak misfit kook wonder eccentric curiosity rarity crank prodigy

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Antonyms

standard normal bourgeois solution conservative confidence

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Hypernyms

individual person soul mortal somebody someone

Examples

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land. Martin Luther

Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards. Nikos Kazantzakis

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. Lawrence Durrell

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing. Jenna Elfman

As of this writing, three out of three example sentences for whopping are of the pre-number variety, suggesting that an independent whopping is a rare bird. Source: Internet

This is New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert for Monday, May 21. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

rare as a day in June rare as a four-leaf clover rare as rocking horse shit rare breeds rare childhood disease rare earth