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Singular   /sˈɪŋgjələr/   Listen
adjective
Singular  adj.  
1.
Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. (Obs.) "And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly."
2.
Engaged in by only one on a side; single. (Obs.) "To try the matter thus together in a singular combat."
3.
(Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual. "The idea which represents one... determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound."
4.
(Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
5.
(Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; opposed to dual and plural.
6.
Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. "So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect."
7.
Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.
8.
Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; often implying disapproval or censure. "His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash." "To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise."
9.
Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique. "These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind."
Singular point in a curve (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point.
Singular proposition (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign.
Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass.
Singular term (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual.
Synonyms: Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic.


noun
Singular  n.  
1.
An individual instance; a particular. (Obs.)
2.
(Gram) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.





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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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