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par⋅tic⋅u⋅lar

  [per-tik-yuh-ler, puh-tik-]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
2. immediately present or under consideration; in this specific instance or place: Look at this particular clause in the contract.
3. distinguished or different from others or from the ordinary; noteworthy; marked; unusual: She sang with particular warmth at last evening's concert.
4. exceptional or especial: Take particular pains with this job.
5. being such in an exceptional degree: a particular friend of mine.
6. dealing with or giving details, as an account or description, of a person; detailed; minute.
7. exceptionally selective, attentive, or exacting; fastidious; fussy: to be particular about one's food.
8. Logic.
a. not general; referring to an indefinite part of a whole class.
b. (of a proposition) containing only existential quantifiers.
c. partaking of the nature of an individual as opposed to a class.
9. Law.
a. noting an estate that precedes a future or ultimate ownership, as lands devised to a widow during her lifetime and after that to her children.
b. noting the tenant of such an estate.
–noun
10. an individual or distinct part, as an item of a list or enumeration.
11. Usually, particulars. specific points, details, or circumstances: to give an investigator the particulars of a case.
12. Logic. an individual or a specific group within a general class.
—Idiom
13. in particular, particularly; specifically; especially: There is one book in particular that may help you.
Origin:
1350–1400; < LL particulāris, equiv. to L particul(a) particle + -āris -ar 1 ; r. ME particuler < MF < LL, as above

Synonyms:
1. See special. 1, 2. specific. 2. distinct; discrete. 3. notable. 6. scrupulous, careful, exact, precise. 7. discriminating; finical, finicky. Particular, dainty, fastidious imply great care, discrimination, and taste in choices, in details about one's person, etc. Particular implies esp. care and attention to details: particular about one's clothes. Dainty implies delicate taste and exquisite cleanliness: a dainty dress. Fastidious implies being difficult to please and critical of small or minor points: a fastidious taste in styles. 10. feature, particularity.

Antonyms:
3. ordinary. 6. inexact. 7. undiscriminating.
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par·tic·u·lar   (pər-tĭk'yə-lər, pə-tĭk'-)   
adj.  

  1. Of, belonging to, or associated with a specific person, group, thing, or category; not general or universal: has a particular preference for Chinese art.

  2. Separate and distinct from others of the same group, category, or nature: made an exception in this particular case.

  3. Worthy of note; exceptional: a piano performance of particular depth and fluidity.

    1. Of, relating to, or providing details: gave a particular description of the room.

    2. Attentive to or concerned with details or niceties, often excessively so; meticulous or fussy.

  5. Logic Encompassing some but not all of the members of a class or group. Used of a proposition.

n.  

  1. An individual item, fact, or detail: correct in every particular. See Synonyms at item.

  2. An item or detail of information or news. Often used in the plural: The police refused to divulge the particulars of the case.

  3. A separate case or an individual thing or instance, especially one that can be distinguished from a larger category or class. Often used in the plural: "What particulars were ambushed behind these generalizations?" (Aldous Huxley).

  4. Logic A particular proposition.


[Middle English particuler, from Old French, from Late Latin particulāris, from Latin particula, diminutive of pars, part-, part; see part.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

particular 
c.1386, "pertaining to a single thing or person," from O.Fr. particuler, from L.L. particularis "of a part," from L. particula "particle" (see particle). Sense of "precise, exacting" first recorded 1814. Noun meaning "a part or section of a whole" is from 1494. Particulars "small details of statement" is from 1606. Particularly "in a special degree, more than others" is attested from 1676.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: par·tic·u·lar
Function: adjective
in the civil law of Louisiana : of or relating to a designated property or to the inheritance of it —compare UNIVERSAL
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Idioms & Phrases

particular

see in particular.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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