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Singular   /sˈɪŋgjələr/   Listen
Singular

adjective
1.
Unusual or striking.  Synonym: remarkable.  "Such poise is singular in one so young"
2.
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.  Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy.  "Her speech has a funny twang" , "They have some funny ideas about war" , "Had an odd name" , "The peculiar aromatic odor of cloves" , "Something definitely queer about this town" , "What a rum fellow" , "Singular behavior"
3.
Being a single and separate person or thing.  "Every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind"
4.
Composed of one member, set, or kind.
5.
Grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit.
6.
The single one of its kind.  Synonym: unique.  "The unique existing example of Donne's handwriting" , "A unique copy of an ancient manuscript" , "Certain types of problems have unique solutions"
noun
1.
The form of a word that is used to denote a singleton.  Synonym: singular form.



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"Singular" Quotes from Famous Books



... Then a singular being appears, with the head of a man and the body of a fish. He advances straight through the air, tossing the sand with his tail; and his patriarchal face and his little arms make ...
— The Temptation of St. Antony - or A Revelation of the Soul • Gustave Flaubert
... enchanted the sage, and they used to talk together with all imaginable ease. A singular instance happened one evening, when she insisted that some of Sterne's writings were very pathetic. Johnson bluntly denied it. 'I am sure,' said she, 'they have affected me.' 'Why,' said Johnson, smiling, and rolling himself about—'that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce.' When she some ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... upon settlers on the public lands: at another, the tariff is the cause of her desolation. Slavery, the real root of the evil, is carefully kept out of sight, as a "delicate subject," which must not be alluded to. It is a singular fact in the present age of the world, that delicate and indelicate subjects mean precisely ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child
... personal appearance had undergone a singular process of transformation. The lower part of his face, from his nostrils to his chin, was hidden by a white handkerchief tied round it. He had removed the stopper from a strangely shaped bottle, and was absorbed in watching some interesting condition in a dusky liquid that it contained. To ...
— The Guilty River • Wilkie Collins
... differences on lines of the strictest equity and justice. By these means he gained such credit with his fellow-citizens as to attract the attention of those who lived in the neighbouring villages, who had suffered from unjust judgments, so that when they heard of the singular uprightness of Deiokes and of the equity of his decisions they joyfully had recourse to him until at last they came to put confidence in no one else. The number of complaints brought before him continually increasing as people learnt more and more the justice of ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 8 (of 12) • G. Maspero


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