unrivaled

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adjective

Beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival.

“Helen’s unrivaled beauty is said to have launched a thousand ships.”

Less commonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveunrivaled (not comparable)

alternative UK unrivalled

  1. USnot comparableBeyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival.

    Helen’s unrivaled beauty is said to have launched a thousand ships.

    2 more examples

    [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

    Synonyms: peerless

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveBeyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival.

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishrivaled
  9. Englishunrivaled

From un- + rivaled.

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Translations

German konkurrenzlos, unvergleichlich
  • konkurrenzlosbeyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival
  • unvergleichlichbeyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival
  • unerreichtbeyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival
  • unübertroffenbeyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival
Greek απαράμιλλος
  • απαράμιλλος (aparámillos)beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival
Polish bezkonkurencyjny
  • bezkonkurencyjnybeyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival
Russian непревзойдённый
  • непревзойдённый (neprevzojdjónnyj)beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival
Spanish inigualable
  • inigualablebeyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival
Turkish rakipsiz
  • rakipsizbeyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival
Welsh heb ail
  • heb ailbeyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival
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Chicago

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