Matchless
adj ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Having no match; without equal.
"[T]he Prince was to declare the victor in the first day's tourney, who should receive as prize a warhorse of exquisite beauty and matchless strength."
- 2 Without the use of matches for ignition. not-comparable
"a matchless stove"
- 3 Having no mate.
"In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her."
- 1 eminent beyond or above comparison wordnet
Example
More examples"Our seamen have always been famous for a matchless alacrity and intrepidity in time of danger; this has saved many a British ship, when other seamen would have run below deck, and left the ship to the mercy of the waves, or, perhaps, of a more cruel enemy, a pirate."
Etymology
From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”), Danish mageløs (“matchless”).
From match + -less.
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