| 1. | extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success. |
| 2. | unusual or strange; odd; different: singular behavior. |
| 3. | being the only one of its kind; distinctive; unique: a singular example. |
| 4. | separate; individual. |
| 5. | Grammar. noting or pertaining to a member of the category of number found in many languages that indicates that a word form has one referent or denotes one person, place, thing, or instance, as English boy and thing, which are singular nouns, or goes, a singular form of the verb go. Compare dual (def. 4), plural (def. 4). |
| 6. | Logic.
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| 7. | Mathematics.
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| 8. | Obsolete. private. |
| 9. | Obsolete. single. |
| 10. | the singular number. |
| 11. | a form in the singular. |
sin·gu·lar (sĭng'gyə-lər) adj.
[Middle English singuler, from Old French, from Latin singulāris, from singulus, single; see single.] sin'gu·lar·ly adv., sin'gu·lar·ness n. |