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UNRIVALLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unrivalled mean?
• UNRIVALLED (adjective)
The adjective UNRIVALLED has 1 sense:
1. eminent beyond or above comparison
Familiarity information: UNRIVALLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eminent beyond or above comparison
Synonyms:
matchless; nonpareil; one; one and only; peerless; unmatchable; unmatched; unrivaled; unrivalled
Context example:
unrivaled mastery of her art
Similar:
incomparable; uncomparable (such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared)
Context examples
I believe I am correct Colonel, in saying that your bag of tigers still remains unrivalled?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In his preceding attempts to attach himself to Louisa Musgrove (the attempts of angry pride), he protested that he had for ever felt it to be impossible; that he had not cared, could not care, for Louisa; though till that day, till the leisure for reflection which followed it, he had not understood the perfect excellence of the mind with which Louisa's could so ill bear a comparison, or the perfect unrivalled hold it possessed over his own.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The general was flattered by her looks of surprise, which told him almost as plainly, as he soon forced her to tell him in words, that she had never seen any gardens at all equal to them before; and he then modestly owned that, without any ambition of that sort himself—without any solicitude about it—he did believe them to be unrivalled in the kingdom.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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