unequalledadj.
a. (un- prefix1 2.)
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > incomparable, unparalleled, or unique
unilicheOE
makelessc1225
unevenlyc1230
peerlessc1330
alonea1382
uncomparablea1382
unoverpassablea1382
solea1398
incomparable1412
sans-peer1426
nonpareilc1450
invincible1509
matchless1530
inimitable1531
unmatchable1544
unmatched1548
unpassable1563
alonely1567
inequivalent1568
mateless1570
unparagonized1578
only1581
fellowlessa1586
unimitablea1586
compareless1590
incompared1590
immatchless1595
unequalized1596
nonsuch1598
paragonless1599
immatchable1601
unparalleled1601
uncompeered1602
unpeered1602
imparalleled1604
unpeerable1604
unrivalled1607
uncompanioned1608
unexampled1610
unsurmountable1611
unsurpassable1611
unparagoned1612
patternless1613
unpatterned1617
unique1618
unparallelable1621
parallelless1622
unmatchless1623
single1633
unexemplifieda1634
unsampleda1638
unequalled1639
imparallel1641
unparallel1645
unseconded1646
unexemplary1649
unaccessional1651
unequalable1659
uncome-at-able1694
rivalless1735
untouched1735
unexcelleda1800
unexceeded1813
sans-pareilly1818
unsurpassed1818
unrivallable1823
unapproachable1834
untranscendeda1849
insuperable1849
unbrothered1853
unapproached1856
insurpassable1859
untouchable1867
hors concours1884
1639 W. Berkeley Lost Lady i. i I will relate the story of his Unequal'd suffrings.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sea Voy. iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbb3v/1 Do ye like wealth, and most unequal'd beauty?
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 983 Chiefly assur'd..of thy so true, So faithful Love unequald . View more context for this quotation
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. ii. 38 No; 'tis th' unequall'd beauty of its train Deludes your eye.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 177 Why should there be..such unequalled heats, and such unequalled evaporation?
1841 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. viii. 120 Our ancestors were rare architects. Their painted glass and their carved oak are unequalled.
1871 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce i. iii. 81 Buildings which are unequalled for grandeur.
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1769 O. Goldsmith Rom. Hist. II. 103 An act of unequalled heroism by any thing that had hitherto appeared in Rome.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 19 A violence and noise unequalled by the loudest cataracts.
1829 Chapters Physical Sci. 64 The battering-ram..exerted a force which in some respects rendered it unequalled by our battering cannon.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 124 A panorama..unequalled..by any view in Greece.
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