Synonym: instead, kind of, kinda, preferably, quite, sooner, sort of. Similar words: or rather, rather than, father, gather, math, leather, baths, feather. Meaning: ['ræðə(r) /'rɑː-] 
adv. 1. on the contrary 2. to some (great or small) extent 3. more readily or willingly 4. to a degree (not used with a negative).
adv. 1. on the contrary 2. to some (great or small) extent 3. more readily or willingly 4. to a degree (not used with a negative). 
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1. Be honest rather clever.
2. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. 
3. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. Thomas Fuller
4. I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
5. I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold.
6. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading.
7. I would rather see a young man blush than turn pale.
8. The experience had left him rather shaky.
9. Her preference is for comfortable rather than stylish clothes.
10. Fairness, rather than efficiency, is the guiding principle.
11. He would rather play than work.
12. His political ideas are rather extreme.
13. She remembers being a rather bossy little girl.
14. The concert was rather a scrappy affair.
15. That's an episode in my life I'd rather forget!
16. His behaviour is sometimes rather rough.
17. Lucy is a rather timid child.
18. The problem was psychological rather than physiological.
19. You look rather shabby in those clothes.
20. These shoes are looking rather worn.
21. I find the atmosphere there rather impersonal.
22. The enrolment criteria are geographical rather than academic.
23. I've grown rather weary of all your excuses.
24. He's given to drinking rather heavily.
25. It seemed rather an odd manner of deciding things.
26. She was rather hurt by his unkind words.
27. It was a jest rather than a reproach.
28. Fear not that thy life shall come to an end,(sentencedict.com) but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
29. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
30. The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
More similar words: or rather, rather than, father, gather, math, leather, baths, feather, death, at hand, bathos, at home, at heart, breath, apathy, athlete, athletic, anathema, gathering, pathetic, beneath, bathroom, a thought, sympathy, Catholic, grandfather, breathing, put to death, out of breath, rat.