Meanings
comparative more unparalleled · superlative most unparalleled · alternative UK unparallelled
- Having no parallel; without equal; lacking anything similar or worthy of comparison.
The candidate experienced unparalleled support in the last election.
3 more examples
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 43Such 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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveradically distinctive and without equal
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishparalleled
- Englishunparalleled
From un- + paralleled.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian несравним
- несравним (nesravnim)having no parallel
Chinese Mandarin 無比的 /无比的, 無雙的 /无双的
- 無比的 /无比的 (wúbǐde)having no parallel
- 無雙的 /无双的 (wúshuangde)having no parallel
- 空前未有的 (kōngqiánwèiyǒude)having no parallel
- 無人能出其右的 /无人能出其右的 (wúrénnéngchuqíyòude)having no parallel
Dutch ongeëvenaard
- ongeëvenaardhaving no parallel
Finnish verraton, vertaansa vailla
- verratonhaving no parallel
- vertaansa vaillahaving no parallel
- ennätyksellinenhaving no parallel
French sans égal, incomparable
- sans égalhaving no parallel
- incomparablehaving no parallel
German ohnegleichen, unvergleichlich
- ohnegleichenhaving no parallel
- unvergleichlichhaving no parallel
- unübertroffenhaving no parallel
- unerreichthaving no parallel
Greek απαράμιλλος
- απαράμιλλος (aparámillos)having no parallel
Icelandic eindæma
- eindæmahaving no parallel
Irish but see gan sárú
- but see gan sárúhaving no parallel
Polish bezprzykładny
- bezprzykładnyhaving no parallel
Portuguese ímpar
- ímparhaving no parallel
Russian бесприме́рный, бесподо́бный
- бесприме́рный (besprimérnyj)having no parallel
- бесподо́бный (bespodóbnyj)having no parallel
- беспрецеде́нтный (besprecedéntnyj)having no parallel
Spanish sin par, sin parangón
- sin parhaving no parallel
- sin parangónhaving no parallel
- señerohaving no parallel
Swedish makalös
- makalöshaving no parallel
Turkish eşşiz, benzersiz
- eşşizhaving no parallel
- benzersizhaving no parallel
- rakipsizhaving no parallel
Welsh heb ail
- heb ailhaving no parallel
Cite this entry
unparalleled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unparalleled
“unparalleled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unparalleled. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unparalleled,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unparalleled.
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