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unparalleled en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English paralleled English unparalleled From un- + paralleled.

Meanings

1. Having no parallel; without equal; lacking anything similar or worthy of comparison.
   • The candidate experienced unparalleled support in the last election.
   • Experience had taught me, that woman's falsehood was no unparalleled marvel; but it had coupled with this conviction, that nothing in after life can atone for the bitterness of our first rude awakening. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 23:
   • “Let us go out and drink to the very good health of Monsieur Tarzan in some of old Plancon’s unparalleled absinth; not forgetting that the Count de Coude is one of the best swordsmen in Paris, and by far the best shot in all France.” 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 43:
   • Such equipment has had to bear the unparalleled stress of wartime operation without the maintenance and renewal it would have received under the far easier conditions of peacetime working. 1946 March and April, “Railway Maintenance and Safety”, in Railway Magazine, page 68:

Forms

Deriveds

unparalleledly · unparalleledness

Translations (33)

fi verraton (having no parallel) · cmn 空前未有的 (having no parallel) · nl ongeëvenaard (having no parallel) · es sin parangón (having no parallel) · fi ennätyksellinen (having no parallel) · sa अतुल्य (having no parallel) · fr sans égal (having no parallel) · tr rakipsiz (having no parallel) · de unübertroffen (having no parallel) · tr benzersiz (having no parallel) · is eindæma (having no parallel) · de unerreicht (having no parallel) · pl bezprzykładny (having no parallel) · cmn 無雙的 /无双的 (having no parallel) · es señero (having no parallel) · cmn 無人能出其右的 /无人能出其右的 (having no parallel) · ru бесподо́бный (having no parallel) · pt ímpar (having no parallel) · ota اشسز (having no parallel) · ga but see gan sárú (having no parallel) · cmn 無比的 /无比的 (having no parallel) · es sin par (having no parallel) · ru беспрецеде́нтный (having no parallel) · de ohnegleichen (having no parallel) · tr eşşiz (having no parallel) · bg несравним (having no parallel) · fr incomparable (having no parallel) · cy heb ail (having no parallel) · sv makalös (having no parallel) · ru бесприме́рный (having no parallel) · el απαράμιλλος (having no parallel) · fi vertaansa vailla (having no parallel) · de unvergleichlich (having no parallel)