Definition of Incomparable

1. Adjective. Such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared. "This report is incomparable with the earlier ones because of different breakdowns of the data"


Definition of Incomparable

1. a. Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent.

Definition of Incomparable

1. Adjective. So much better than another as to be beyond comparison; matchless or unsurpassed. ¹

2. Adjective. (rare) Not able to be compared. ¹

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Definition of Incomparable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incomparable

incommunicability
incommunicable
incommunicably
incommunicado
incommunicated
incommunicatively
incommunicativeness
incommutability
incommutable
incommutably
incompact
incomparabilities
incomparability
incomparable (current term)
incomparably
incompared
incompatibilism
incompatibilist
incompatibilists
incompatibilities
incompatibility
incompatible

Literary usage of Incomparable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1839)
"have been a prisoner; though his nearest friends, who knew his temper, received small comfort from that imagination. Thus fell that incomparable young man, ..."

2. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"... finally, a Florentine who used his native idiom with incomparable vivacity of style. These qualities combined in a single personality, strongly marked ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"... of this incomparable man, universally beloved by all who knew him' (EVELYN). U'ith his bishopric he held the rectory of Wigan in ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... without a more ample explanation, be clearly or sufficiently understood. as a soldier and as a statesman, the incomparable position of Byzantium : and ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Jefferies will give you the flora and fauna of the village with incomparable accuracy; but for the villager, go to Mr. Hardy or Dr. Jessopp. ..."

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