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US
/ˈsɪŋɡjəɫɝ/
]
[ UK /sˈɪŋɡjʊlɐ/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪŋɡjʊlɐ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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unusual or striking
such poise is singular in one so young
a remarkable sight -
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
her speech has a funny twang
a curious hybrid accent
had an odd name
singular behavior
something definitely queer about this town
the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves
they have some funny ideas about war
what a rum fellow - composed of one member, set, or kind
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being a single and separate person or thing
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 - grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit
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the single one of its kind
a unique copy of an ancient manuscript
the unique existing example of Donne's handwriting
a singular example
certain types of problems have unique solutions
NOUN
- the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton
How To Use singular In A Sentence
- Searle wants to deny that collective intentions are analyzable in terms of singular intentions, but he also wants (and in my view with better reasons) to deny that there are collective spirits or other mysterious creations.
- It was a singular, unpreventable event that has unfairly tarred all businesses.
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- In the case of nouns, the singular with the postpositive definite article and the indefinite plural are given in parenthesis. Fritiofs Saga
- Second, his academic experience at the University of Chicago makes him singularly suited to translate the arcana of policy into an accessible format.
- In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage. Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
- The singular aim of elite globalization is to maximize profits for international corporations.
- I will hereafter refer to it in the singular, so as to avoid having to recount exactly which one was pointed at what at any given moment.
- The material world is manifest out of singular consciousness, nondual suchness, it evolves ... and then transcends again. Sebastian Siegel: Manifesting the Moon
- Here various design moves unfold: nothing is what it seems, complexity unstitches singularity.