singular

Meanings

Plural: singulars

Noun

• the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton
• A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.
• That which is not general; a specific determinate instance.

Adjective Satellite

• unusual or striking
  • "such poise is singular in one so young"
• beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  • "singular behavior"
• being a single and separate person or thing; ; -William James
  • "can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?"
  • "every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind"
• the single one of its kind
  • "a singular example"

Adjective

• composed of one member, set, or kind
• grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit

Adj

• Being only one of a larger population; single, individual.
• Being the only one of the kind; unique.
• Distinguished by superiority: peerless, unmatched, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary.
• Out of the ordinary; curious.
• Referring to only one thing or person.
• Having no inverse.
• Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
• Not equal to its own cofinality.
• Each; individual.
• Engaged in by only one on a side; single.

Synonyms

aberrant, abnormal, alien, alone, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, azygous, bizarre, concrete, curious, deviant, discrepant, discrete, eccentric, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, funny, heteroclite, hinky, incomparable, incongruitous, incongruous, individual, irregular, kooky, matchless, monstrous, non-invertible, nonpareil, nonstandard, odd, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, particular, peculiar, peerless, proper, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, remarkable, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, singular form, specific, strange, sui generis, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unequaled, unexpected, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unreasonable, unrivalled, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy

Antonyms

general, invertible, non-singular, plural, specific

Related Words

dual, grammatical number, paucal, plural, quadral, quintal, simple, simplex, single, singulus, trial

Anagrams of singular