unrivaled 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 rivaled English unrivaled From un- + rivaled.
Meanings
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(US, not-comparable) Beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival.
Helen’s unrivaled beauty is said to have launched a thousand ships.
[T]his museum of the state of flux [Newmarket, Suffolk] has a climate unrivalled for the production of the British temperament. Not without a due proportion of that essential formative of character, east wind, it has at once the hottest sun, the coldest blizzards, the wettest rain, of any place of its size in 'the three kingdoms.'
1907, John Galsworthy, “The Happy Hunting-ground”, in The Country House, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part I, page 33:As the airboat skimmed across the shallow water, scattering blue dragonflies and launching a heron into the air, Keith Price squinted into the sun and relished the isolation of Florida’s unrivaled river of grass.
2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unrivalled | UK, alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
Translations (12)
de unerreicht (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · km មហិទ្ធិ (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · tr rakipsiz (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · pl bezkonkurencyjny (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · el απαράμιλλος (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · es inigualable (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · cy heb ail (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · de unvergleichlich (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · de konkurrenzlos (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · ru непревзойдённый (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · de unübertroffen (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival) · sa अद्वैत (beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival)