UNPARALLELED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unparalleled mean? 

• UNPARALLELED (adjective)
  The adjective UNPARALLELED has 1 sense:

1. radically distinctive and without equal

  Familiarity information: UNPARALLELED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPARALLELED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Radically distinctive and without equal

Synonyms:

alone; unequaled; unequalled; unique; unparalleled

Context example:

a breakdown of law unparalleled in our history

Similar:

incomparable; uncomparable (such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared)

 Context examples 

Three years before, I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it for ever with the bitterest remorse.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was unparalleled, undreamed-of, that I, Humphrey Van Weyden, a scholar and a dilettante, if you please, in things artistic and literary, should be lying here on a Bering Sea seal-hunting schooner.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Yesterday the stranger said to me, You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated, and when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends; he devoted to destruction beings who possessed exquisite sensations, happiness, and wisdom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils—one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might claim Elizabeth and forget the past in my union with her.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)