Matchless
['mætʃlɪs] or ['mætʃləs]
Definition
(adj.) eminent beyond or above comparison; 'matchless beauty'; 'the team's nonpareil center fielder'; 'she's one girl in a million'; 'the one and only Muhammad Ali'; 'a peerless scholar'; 'infamy unmatched in the Western world'; 'wrote with unmatchable clarity'; 'unrivaled mastery of her art' .
Editor: Ricky--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having no equal; unequaled.
(a.) Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited.
Inputed by Dennis
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unrivalled, unparalleled, unequalled, peerless, incomparable, exquisite, inimitable, excellent, first-rate, superlatively good, of the best, of the first water.
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- That consisted of two matchless lips and a cheek only, her head being still enveloped. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- How long, when I look on this matchless specimen of mortality, may I perceive that his thought answers mine? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What would you think of a man who looked at some decayed, blind, toothless, pock-marked Cleopatra, and said: What matchless beauty! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- From the Middle West and Eastern states comes the matchless white clover honey, basswood and the dark aromatic buckwheat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- With an air of absence he was playing with her auburn locks, while she leaned on him; twice I turned back, only to look again on this matchless pair. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His talk was to the same purpose as usual--all about himself and his ailments, his wonderful coins, and his matchless Rembrandt etchings. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Those roses there on the sofa--acres like them, under glass and in the open, in his matchless terraced gardens at Nice! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I was to thrust this selected and matchless friend into the post of danger-- impossible! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Let the kind, candid blue eyes meet yours, as they met mine, with the one matchless look which we both remember so well. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Such matchless coloring! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Checker: Phelps