singular

About 9.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Being only one of a larger population; single, individual.

   A singular experiment cannot be regarded as scientific proof of the existence of a phenomenon.

2. adjective Being the only one of the kind; unique.

   She has a singular personality.

3. adjective Distinguished by superiority: peerless, unmatched, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary.

   a man of singular gravity or attainments

4. adjective Out of the ordinary; curious.

   It was very singular; I don't know why he did it.

5. adjective Referring to only one thing or person.
6. adjective Having no inverse.
7. adjective Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
8. adjective Not equal to its own cofinality.

Similar words

unique individual single strange peculiar extraordinary odd unusual remarkable curious

Often followed by

and in that or form fact the of number

Word family

singularly singulars