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Definition: Peerless |
PeerlessAdjective1. Eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peerless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonyms: PeerlessSynonyms: matchless (adj), nonpareil (adj), one and only(a) (adj), one(a) (adj), unmatchable (adj), unmatched (adj), unrivaled (adj), unrivalled (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Repute | Eminent, prominent; high; in the zenith; at the head of, at the top of the tree; peerless, of the first water.; superior; supereminent, preeminent. |
Superiority | Supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning; first-rate; (important), (excellent); unrivaled peerless, matchless; none such, second to none, sans pareil; unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed; superlative, inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus, ne plus ultra; beyond compare, beyond comparison; culminating; (topmost); transcendent, transcendental;plus royaliste que le Roi, more catholic than the Pope |
Virtue | Exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Peerless |
| English words defined with "peerless": Fellowless ♦ Immatchable, Incompared ♦ matchless ♦ nonpareil ♦ one, one and only ♦ Primrose peerless ♦ unmatchable, unmatched, Unparagoned, unrivaled, unrivalled. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "peerless": Flamboyant Architecture ♦ WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "peerless": Immatchable, Incompared ♦ Unparagoned, unrivaled. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Baseballs Peerless Leader (1913) 8 Peerless Treasures (1979) | |
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 | Photograph taken prior to her World War I Navy service. Renamed Peerless on 5 August 1918, this freighter was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 8 December 1918 as USS Peerless (ID # 1639). She was returned to her owner on 22 September 1919 and later was again named Eagle.Credit: NAVY. |  | Dr. Bryan's peerless remedies condensed and sweetened to taste --.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The peerless pacificator, and thereby hangs a tail.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Peerless at Mackinac Island.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Peerless Furniture Co. Exterior of Peerless Furniture Co.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. Should you ask me whence this laughter, Whence this audible big-smiling, With its labial extension, With its maxillar distortion And its diaphragmic rhythmus Like the billowing of an ocean, Like the shaking of a carpet, I should answer, I should tell you: From the great deeps of the spirit, From the unplummeted abysmus Of the soul this laughter welleth As the fountain, the gug-guggle, Like the river from the canon [sic], To entoken and give warning That my present mood is sunny. Should you ask me further question -- Why the great deeps of the spirit, Why the unplummeted abysmus Of the soule extrudes this laughter, This all audible big-smiling, I should answer, I should tell you With a white heart, tumpitumpy, With a true tongue, honest Injun: William Bryan, he has Caught It, Caught the Whangdepootenawah! Is't the sandhill crane, the shankank, Standing in the marsh, the kneedeep, Standing silent in the kneedeep With his wing-tips crossed behind him And his neck close-reefed before him, With his bill, his william, buried In the down upon his bosom, With his head retracted inly, While his shoulders overlook it? Does the sandhill crane, the shankank, Shiver grayly in the north wind, Wishing he had died when little, As the sparrow, the chipchip, does? No 'tis not the Shankank standing, Standing in the gray and dismal Marsh, the gray and dismal kneedeep. No, 'tis peerless William Bryan Realizing that he's Caught It, Caught the Whangdepootenawah! |
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| "Peerless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.94% of the time. "Peerless" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.94% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Peerless Industrial Group, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Peerless, MT |
Expressions using "peerless": Peerless Park ♦ Primrose peerless ♦ unrivaled peerless. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "peerless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pashoq (incomparable, unmatched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فذ (alone, incomparable, individual, matchless, nonesuch, single, singular, unequaled, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, unusual), فريد (individual, matchless, single, singular, unique, unparalleled, unrivaled), منقطع النظير (matchless, nonesuch, unequalled, unexampled, unrivalled), لا يضارع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | несравним (disparate, incomparable, incompatible, inimitable, matchless, sublime, unmatchable, unparalleled, unprecedented, unsurpassable), безподобен (incomparable, inimitable, matchless, nonpareil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 绝世. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | jedineèný (golden, incomparable, nonesuch, one and only, singular, unique, unparalleled, unrepeatable, unrivalled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | بی همتا (Incomparable, Matchless, Unbeatable, Unique, Unmatched, Unparalleled, Unrivaled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans pareil, sans égal, hors pair. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unvergleichlich (incomparable, matchless, matchlessly, nonesuch, nonpar, peerlessly, unequaledly, unequalledly, unequally, unexampled, unique, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, unrivalled, without comparison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασύγκριτοσ (incomparable, nonesuch, surpassing, unmatched), απαράμιλλοσ (incomparable, matchless, nonesuch, nonpareil, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivalled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שאין ש י לו. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | utolérhetetlen (inimitable, unequalled, untouched), páratlan (equitable, impair, impaired, inimitable, matchless, nonesuch, nonpareil, odd, singular, superlative, supreme, uneven, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unrivalled, unsurpassed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza pari (matchless, surpassing, unequaled, unequalled), ineguagliabile (unparalleled), impareggiabile (incomparable, matchless, nonpareil, unmatched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 絶倫 (matchless, unequaled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぜつり" (matchless, unequaled), ぜっせい (matchless, unequaled), ひるいのない, ふじ (emergency, incurability, irregularity, unexpectedness, unparalleled, wisteria), か"むり (best, cap, crown, designating, diadem, first, initiating on coming of age, naming, top character radical), か" (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), むそう (a blank mind, dream, matchless, reverie, unparalleled, vision), むひ (unparalleled), むに (matchless), て"かいっぴ" (best article under heaven), て"かむそう (unequaled), て"かむひ (unequaled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchosoylagh (contrasting, improbable, incomparable, matchless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eerlesspay sem igual (alone, matchless, nonpareil, onerous, unapproachable, unbeatable, unequalled, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed), inigualável (surpassing, unequalled, unparalleled), incomparável (absolute, inappropriate, incompact, incompatibility, matchless, nonpareil, surpassing, unapproachable, unequalled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivalled), fidalga (gentlewoman, nobly). (various references) neasemuit (unexampled, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivalled), neîntrecut (matchless, unbeaten, unsurpassed), nãzdrãvan (droll, fairy, funny, rogue, supernatural, wonder-working), inegalabil (matchlessly), fãrã pereche (matchless, unequalled, unparalleled, unrivalled, without compare). (various references) несравненный (incomparable, inimitable, matchless, nonpareil, without peer), бесподобный (matchless, nonpareil, unequalled, unmatched, unparalleled). (various references) bez premca (matchless, nonesuch, nonsuch, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled). (various references) sin par (matchless, nonpareil, surpassing, unmatched), sin igual (matchless). (various references) makalös (incomparable, matchless, nonpareil, surpassing, unequalled, unexampled, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivalled). (various references) emsalsiz (incomparable, matchless, nonpareil, unequalled, unmatched), eşsiz (heavenly, in a class of one's own, incomparable, inimitable, irreplaceable, matchless, nonesuch, nonpareil, singular, unequalled, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, unrivalled, unsurpassed, without a peer). (various references) незрівнянний (disparate, incomparable, matchless, rare, stunning, transcendent, unapproachable, unmatched, unparalleled). (various references) vô song (incomparable, matchless, nonpareil, unequalled, unexampled, unparalleted, unrivalled), có một không hai. (various references) dihafal (unequaled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incomparabilis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "peerless": peerlessly. (additional references) | |
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"Peerless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pearles, Peierls, periless, perles, perrless, petless, Pierules, poreless, Porlezza, pyrlysis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peerless" (pronounced pi"rlus) |
| 5 | -i" r l u s | earless, fearless. |
| 4 | -r l u s | airless, careless, hairless, scoreless, wireless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sleepers. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: peelers, peeress, sleeper. | |
-2 letters: lepers, lessee, lesser, peeler, perses, repels, resees, sleeps, speels, speers, sprees. | |
-3 letters: epees, erses, leers, leper, peels, peers, peles, perse, prees, prese, press, reels, repel, resee, seels, seeps, seers, seres, sleep, speel, speer, spree. | |
-4 letters: eels, else, epee, eses, leer, lees, less, peel, peer, pees, pele, pree, reel, rees, reps. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-p-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: oversleeps, peerlessly, preblessed, preblesses, preselects, sleepovers. | |
+3 letters: depressible, expressible, letterpress, prereleases, replenishes, repleteness, repressible, superelites, superseller, terpeneless. | |
+4 letters: depressively, erysipelases, espiegleries, expressively, leopardesses, letterspaces, pleasureless, preassembled, preschedules, pressureless, replenishers, repressively, respectables, sleepwalkers, superhelices, superhelixes, supersellers, timepleasers. | |
+5 letters: electroscopes, exemplariness, gentlepersons, inexpressible, irrepressible, letterpresses, pearlescences, powerlessness, preselections, presterilizes, repletenesses, reposefulness, repulsiveness, resplendences, separableness, steeplechaser, superableness, superathletes, superelevates, supersalesmen, supersensible, supplementers, telegrapheses, teleutospores. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 65 72 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . . .-. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01100101 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e e r l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0065 0072 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071718478718585 |
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