unrivalled

U1N1R1I1V4A1L1L1E1D2

adjective

UK standard spelling of unrivaled.

Less commonScrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveunrivalled (not comparable)
  1. not comparableUK standard spelling of unrivaled.
    1 more example

    [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

Synonyms & antonyms

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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. Englishrivalled
  9. Englishunrivalled

From un- + rivalled.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

unrivalled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrivalled

MLA

“unrivalled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrivalled. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unrivalled,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrivalled.

Source: unrivalled on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.