Meanings
- 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
adjectiveeminent beyond or above comparison
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-
- Englishrivalled
- Englishunrivalled
Cite this entry
unrivalled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrivalled
“unrivalled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrivalled. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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