Word Meanings - SINGULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And

Additional info about word: SINGULAR

Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. Chaucer. 2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. Holinshed.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SINGULAR)

• Curious
• Inquiring
• inquisitive
• scrutinizing
• prying
• meddling
• singular
• searching
• interrogative
• peeping
• peering
• rare
• unique
• odd
• recondite
• Eccentric
• Peculiar
• idiosyncratic
• flighty
• aberrant
• anomalous
• wayward
• strange
• irregular
• abnormal
• whimsical
• erratic
• Individual
• Personal
• specific
• peculiar
• indivisible
• identical
• special
• single
• separate
• particular
• Odd
• Alone
• sole
• unmatched
• remaining
• over
• fragmentary
• uneven
• queer
• quaint
• fantastical
• uncommon
• nondescript
• Private
• personal
• characteristic
• exceptional
• exclusive
• unusual

Related words: (words related to SINGULAR)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• ECCENTRICITY
  The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis. (more info) 1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
• MEDDLING
  Meddlesome. Macaulay.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• INQUISITIVELY
  In an inquisitive manner. The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.
• PRYTANIS
  A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• PRYAN
  See PRIAN
• PEERT
  See PEART
• ECCENTRICALLY
  In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• QUEERISH
  Rather queer; somewhat singular.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• PEERAGE
  1. The rank or dignity of a peer. Blackstone. 2. The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. Milton.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• OUTPEER
  To excel. Shak.
• LEPRY
  Leprosy. Holland.