Unique

//juːˈniːk// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.

    "The phoenix, the unique of birds."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched. not-comparable

    "Every person has a unique life, therefore every person has a unique journey."

  2. 2
    Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
  3. 3
    Particular, characteristic.
  4. 4
    Rare or unusual. often, proscribed

    "And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique, the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch."

Adjective
  1. 1
    highly unusual or rare but not the single instance wordnet
  2. 2
    radically distinctive and without equal wordnet
  3. 3
    (followed by ‘to’) applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality wordnet
  4. 4
    the single one of its kind wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
singularunparalleledunusualsingularsui generisa certain

Example

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"The more unique each person is, the more he contributes to the wisdom of others."

Etymology

Borrowed from French unique. Piecewise doublet of any.

Related phrases

non-uniqueuniq fruitunique factorization domainunique factorization ringunique identification numberunique identifierunique keyunique-headed buguniversally unique identifierone of kind

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