Synonyms:
alone(p), unique, unequaled, unequalled, unparalleled
Meaning: radically distinctive and without equal; "he is alone in the field of microbiology"; "this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem"; "Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint"; "craftsmen whose skill is unequaled"; "unparalleled athletic ability"; "a breakdown of law unparalleled in our history"
Synonyms:
unique(p)
Meaning: (followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality; "a species unique to Australia"
Usage examples
She could see as well as any one the unusually, the unique loveliness of Lady Caroline.
But it is not the unique and novel swindle that is most dangerous, either to a bank or an individual.
It is vain to say that the circumstances have been unique and that the general principle is still valid.
This unique naval structure was promptly nicknamed "a cheese-box on a raft," and the designation was not at all inapt.
They played this new and unique form of hide-and-seek, each one taking a new shape, turn by turn, as a challenge to the other's powers of imagination and detection.
These polyps have a unique generating mechanism that reproduces them via the budding process, and they have an individual existence while also participating in a communal life.
'If there's anything I detest, it's an Americanized Italian--and here in Valedolmo of all places, where you have a right to demand something unique and romantic and picturesque and real.
Philosophy, with its passion for unity, and mysticism with its monoideistic bent, both "pass to the limit" and identify the something with a unique God who is the all-inclusive soul of the world.
At six o'clock the day broke suddenly, with that speed unique to tropical regions, which experience no real dawn or dusk. The sun's rays pierced the cloud curtain gathered on the easterly horizon, and the radiant orb rose swiftly.
We, the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, are going to try an experiment unique in history; we are going to found a power which will have no other aim but to satisfy the needs of the soldiers, workers, and peasants."