Definition of Uncommon

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Definition of Uncommon
	Uncommon Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Related Definitions: An, As, Cold, Common, Courage, Degree, Heat, Hence, Infrequent, Not, Of, Or, Rare, Remarkable, Season, Strange, Uncommon, Unusual

Uncommon Quotations

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose Bierce

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover

Uncommon Translations

uncommon in Latin is insolitus
uncommon in Swedish is ovanligt

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