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Unique   /junˈik/   Listen
Unique

adjective
1.
Radically distinctive and without equal.  Synonyms: alone, unequaled, unequalled, unparalleled.  "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"
2.
(followed by 'to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality.
3.
The single one of its kind.  Synonym: singular.  "The unique existing example of Donne's handwriting" , "A unique copy of an ancient manuscript" , "Certain types of problems have unique solutions"
4.
Highly unusual or rare but not the single instance.  "Had unique ability in raising funds" , "A frankness unique in literature" , "A unique dining experience"



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"Unique" Quotes from Famous Books



... Utopian excursion, I must warn you, you shall feel the thrust and disturbance of that insurgent movement. In the reiterated use of "Unique," you will, as it were, get the gleam of its integument; in the insistence upon individuality, and the individual difference as the significance of life, you will feel the texture of its shaping body. Nothing endures, nothing is precise ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... should be sorry if any accident were to deprive him of the happiness of meeting me, but that I had the pleasant hope of being at his service after I had shot the count and the baron. I began to enjoy this unique situation. ...
— A Diplomatic Adventure • S. Weir Mitchell

... lovely scenery which England holds, none, perhaps, is more exquisite than the banks of the chalk-rivers—the perfect limpidity of the water, the gay and luxuriant vegetation of the banks and ditches, the masses of noble wood embosoming the villages, the unique beauty of the water-meadows, living sheets of emerald and silver, tinkling and sparkling, cool under the fiercest sun, brilliant under the blackest clouds.—There, if anywhere, one would have expected to find Arcadia among fertility, loveliness, industry, and wealth. But, ...
— Yeast: A Problem • Charles Kingsley

... Verse Remains of the poet's brother, Thomas Vaughan. This is the rarest of Vaughan's collections of poems. The copy once in Mr. Corser's collection, and now in the British Museum, was believed to be unique. It was used both by Lyte and Dr. Grosart. But Miss Morgan has come across two other copies, one in Mr. Locker-Lampson's library at Rowfant, the other in that of ...
— Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II • Henry Vaughan

... It is, it ought to be, the life-long object of a Christian man to gain it in an ever-increasing measure of fulness and accuracy. But the last words of the Lord, the seven sayings from His Cross, constitute a special and in some measure unique disclosure of His Mind and Will. And, therefore, to meditate upon them, as we are now proposing to do, will be to advance one stage further, and a distinct stage, in ...
— Gloria Crucis - addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 • J. H. Beibitz


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