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unparalleled

adjectiveC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,243 of 15,258neutral

Unparalleled means greater than anything else of its kind. Unparalleled success, an unparalleled disaster, unparalleled in scale.

It works for good and bad alike, which is unusual for a superlative. The claim is that nothing stands beside it, and it is spelled with one r and two l's, which almost nobody gets right first time.

Definitions of unparalleled

  1. 1adjectiveunparalleledGreater than anything else of its kind.C1

    “The hotel offers unparalleled views of the mountains.”

unparalleled is a quality.

Also accepted in games: supreme

Where it comes from

From un- + paralleled.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

unparalleled in the wild

  • The Irish Times called it "a work of unparalleled depravity".

    The Wasp Factory

  • Such treatments were considered unparalleled in their strength.

    Antimonial

  • But the position in the Himalayan mountains also gives an unparalleled dimension of beauty to the marathon.

    Great Tibetan Marathon

  • Four key elements of success unite the members of the Superclass and give them unparalleled power over world affairs.

    The Superclass List

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.