Unparalleled

Definition: Unparalleled

Unparalleled

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "unparalleled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Synonyms: Unparalleled

Synonyms: alone(p) (adj), unequaled (adj), unequalled (adj), unique (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inexpedience	Best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless; unparagoned, unparalleled; (supreme); superlatively; good; bully, crackajack, giltedged; superfine,
Nonimitation	Adjective: unimitated, uncopied; unmatched, unparalleled; inimitable; unique, original; creative, inventive, untranslated; exceptional, rare, sui generis uncommon, unexampled.
Perfection	Best; (good); model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned, unparalleled; (supreme); superhuman, divine; beyond all praise; (approbation); sans peur et sans reproche.
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
Unconformity	Newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unparalleled

English words defined with "unparalleled": alone ♦ Imparalleled ♦ Un-, unequaled, unequalled, unique, Unpeered. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unparalleled": Exile ♦ Saccharissa ♦ Trout ♦ Unexampled ♦ Zodiac. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Are We Unique?: A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind (reference) FDR and Harry: Unparalleled Lives (reference) Fly in My Eye: An Anthology of Unparalleled Confusion (reference) More Phobias: Stories of Unparalleled Paranoia! (reference) Nashville Redbook: The Complete and Unparalleled Source Directory for Nashville's Music & Entertainment Industry (1999) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Unparalleled 3 - Soul Slide (reference) Unparalleled II - Free World (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Recreational opportunities in the coastal range are unparalleled as this happy fisherman will testify. Yachats River, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	And an unparalleled conflict broke out.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		This is an unparalleled amount for Greece that should allow it to fully exploit its development potential. (references)
Economic History	Thailand	Thailand enters 2001 under the leadership of a government with unparalleled -- for Thailand, anyway -- legislative strength, and chief economic policy makers are close and trusted aides of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. (references)
	Thailand	The financial crisis that struck Thailand in mid-1997 and soon spread to other economies in the region marked the end of a decade of unparalleled economic expansion, during which the Thai accustomed themselves to real GDP growth averaging nearly 10 percent annually. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply: Aug. 3d, 1842. Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin. Coldly received. War with the whole world!
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	Whether the elements of inherent force in the Republic have kept pace with its unparalleled progression in territory, population, and wealth has been the subject of earnest thought and discussion on both sides of the ocean.
Richard Nixon	1969-1974	America's record in this century has been unparalleled in the world's history for its responsibility, for its generosity, for its creativity and for its progress.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Livestock producers, in their fourth straight year of record losses, were liquidating breeding herds at an unparalleled rate.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	To Harry Truman, who summoned us to unparalleled prosperity at home and constructed the architecture of the Cold War world.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unparalleled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unparalleled" is used about 153 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)	100%	153	25,427

Expression using "unparalleled": unparalleled success. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "unparalleled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pashembullt (unexampled, unprecedented), i pakrahasueshëm (incomparable, matchless, nonpareil, surpassing, unmatched, unrivalled). (various references)

Arabic		‏فذ (alone, incomparable, individual, matchless, nonesuch, peerless, single, singular, unequaled, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unrivaled, unusual), ‏فريد (individual, matchless, peerless, single, singular, unique, unrivaled), ‏لا نظير له (nonesuch, unique). (various references)

Bulgarian		нямащ равен на себе си (unequalled, unrivalled), несравним (disparate, incomparable, incompatible, inimitable, matchless, peerless, sublime, unmatchable, unprecedented, unsurpassable), небивал (howling, unheard of), безпрецедентен (unexampled, unheard of, unprecedented). (various references)

Chinese		空前 (all-time). (various references)

Czech		nevyrovnatelný (matchless, nonesuch, unrivalled), neslýchaný (unheard, unheard of, unprecedented), nemající sobì rovna (unequaled, unequalled, unmatched, unrivalled, unsurpassed, untouched), nebývalý (novel, unprecedented), jedineèný (golden, incomparable, nonesuch, one and only, peerless, singular, unique, unrepeatable, unrivalled), bezpříkladný (unexampled, unprecedented, without equal). (various references)

Farsi		بی مانند (Incomparable, Inimitable, Tendinous, Unprecedented), بی همتا (Incomparable, Matchless, Peerless, Unbeatable, Unique, Unmatched, Unrivaled), بی نظیر (Incomparable, Inimitable, Unbeatable, Unexampled, Unique, Unprecedented, Unrivaled). (various references)

Finnish		verraton (beyond comparison, incomparable, invaluable, unequalled, unrivalled), ainutkertainen (unique). (various references)

French		sans précédent (unheard of, unprecedented), sans pareil (unequalled, unexampled, unmatched), sans égal (unrivalled), incomparable (unique, unmatched), hors de pair. (various references)

German		einmalige (uniquely), beispiellos (unequaled, unequalled, unexampled, unexampledly, unique, unprecedented, unprecendented). (various references)

Greek		χωρίσ προηγούμενο, απαράμιλλοσ (incomparable, matchless, nonesuch, nonpareil, peerless, unmatched, unrivalled). (various references)

Hebrew		שאין כמו�"ו (unmatched). (various references)

Hungarian		példátlan (unexampled, unprecedented, without parallel), összehasonlíthatatlan (incomparable, matchless, peerless). (various references)

Italian		ineguagliabile (peerless). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		類の無い (unprecedented), 類のない (unprecedented), 無双 (matchless, peerless), 無�" (peerless), � 世 (matchless), 不二 (peerless), 不世出 (extraordinary, rare), 並び無い (unequaled, unique), 並び無き (unequaled, unique), 並びない (unequaled, unique), 又無い (matchless, never again, unique), 又ない (matchless, never again, unique), 又と無い (matchless, never again, unique), 又とない (matchless, never again, unique). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ならびない (unequaled, unique), ならびなき (unequaled, unique), またない (matchless, never again, unique), またとない (matchless, never again, unique), ふせいしゅつ (extraordinary, rare), ふじ (emergency, incurability, irregularity, peerless, unexpectedness, wisteria), �"うせい (aggression, calibration, composition, constancy, correction, correction of press, fairness, fixed star, future generations, future life, hardness, impartiality, justice, life to come, loud or high-pitched voice, made of steel, matchless, offensive, organization, posterity, proofreading, public welfare, rebirth, rectification, regeneration, rehabilitation, reorganization, resuscitation, revision, tropism, Welfare Ministry, younger people), むそう (a blank mind, dream, matchless, peerless, reverie, vision), むひ (peerless), るいのない (unprecedented). (various references)

Korean		비� 데 없�". (various references)

Pig Latin		aralleledunpay

Portuguese		sem paralelo, sem igual (alone, matchless, nonpareil, oner, peerless, unapproachable, unbeatable, unequalled, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unmatched, unsurpassed), inigualável (peerless, surpassing, unequalled), incomparável (absolute, matchless, nonpareil, peerless, surpassing, unapproachable, unequalled, unique, unmatched, unrivalled), inaudito (unheard-of, unprecedented). (various references)

Romanian		nemaivãzut (unprecedented, unwitnessed), nemaipomenit (abject, bright, bully, egregious, lovely, lumme, magnificent, nut, priceless, sad, tremendous, unbelievable, unheard of, unprecedented), neasemuit (peerless, unexampled, unmatched, unrivalled), incomparabil (beyond compare, incomparably, inimitable, matchlessly, much, unmatched, unrivalled), fãrã pereche (matchless, peerless, unequalled, unrivalled, without compare). (various references)

Russian		беспримерный (unexampled, unprecedented), бесподобный (matchless, nonpareil, peerless, unequalled, unmatched). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bez paralele. (various references)

Spanish		sin paralelo (without parallel), incomparable (incomparable, matchless, surpassing, unmatchable). (various references)

Swedish		utan motstycke (unheard of, unprecedented, without parallel), makalös (incomparable, matchless, nonpareil, peerless, surpassing, unequalled, unexampled, unmatched, unrivalled). (various references)

Turkish		eşsiz (heavenly, in a class of one's own, incomparable, inimitable, irreplaceable, matchless, nonesuch, nonpareil, peerless, singular, unequalled, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled, unsurpassed, without a peer), benzersiz (in a class of one's own, inimitable, matchless, nonesuch, nonpareil, unequalled, unexampled, unique, unmatched). (various references)

Ukrainian		незрівнянний (disparate, incomparable, matchless, peerless, rare, stunning, transcendent, unapproachable, unmatched), безприкладний (unexampled, without example). (various references)
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	unica, unicam, unicis, unicum, unicus. (various references)
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Misspellings
	"Unparalleled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unparalelled. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unparalleled" (pronounced unpe"rule'ld)
8	-p e" r u l e' l d	paralleled.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-l-l-l-n-p-r-u"
	-2 letters: paralleled.
	-3 letters: laurelled.
	-4 letters: lapelled, laureled, panelled, parallel, pendular, planulae, planular, prunella, prunelle, underlap, uplander.
	-5 letters: adrenal, allured, aneared, deplane, dueller, lalland, landler, lapeled, launder, learned, lupanar, lurdane, paludal, pandura, paneled, pearled, planula, pleader, pleurae, pleural, plunder, preanal, prelude, radulae, ranulae, repanel, replead, undrape.
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