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singular
[ sing-gyuh-ler ]
adjective
- extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional:
a singular success.
Synonyms: peculiar
Antonyms: usual
- unusual or strange; odd; different:
singular behavior.
- being the only one of its kind; distinctive; unique:
a singular example.
- separate; individual.
- 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 ).
- Logic.
- of or relating to something individual, specific, or not general.
- (of a proposition) containing no quantifiers, as “Socrates was mortal.”
- Mathematics.
- of or relating to a linear transformation from a vector space to itself that is not one-to-one.
- of or relating to a matrix having a determinant equal to zero.
- Obsolete. private.
- Obsolete. single.
noun
, Grammar.
- the singular number.
- a form in the singular.
singular
/ ˈsɪŋɡjʊlə /
adjective
- remarkable; exceptional; extraordinary
a singular feat
- unusual; odd
a singular character
- unique
- denoting a word or an inflected form of a word indicating that not more than one referent is being referred to or described
- logic of or referring to a specific thing or person as opposed to something general
noun
- grammar
- the singular number
- a singular form of a word
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Derived Forms
- ˈsingularness, noun
- ˈsingularly, adverb
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Other Words From
- singu·lar·ly adverb
- singu·lar·ness noun
- super·singu·lar adjective
- un·singu·lar adjective
- un·singu·lar·ly adverb
- un·singu·lar·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of singular1
C14: from Latin singulāris single
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