matchless

[mach-lis]

adjective

1. having no equal; peerless; unequaled; incomparable.

   matchless courage.

matchless

/ ˈmætʃlɪs /

adjective

1. unequalled; incomparable; peerless

Other Word Forms

• matchlessly adverb
• matchlessness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of matchless¹

First recorded in 1520–30; match ² + -less

Example Sentences

“You made the world, the audience fall in love with this song with your matchless performance, so thank you.”

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Everything that’s matchless about Raban’s work — his hyperacute eye for detail, his powers of synthesis, his mordant sense of humor, his vast reservoirs of knowledge and his love of travel — is there.

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It’s fair to say that the valley’s matchless terrain and fragile ecosystem would have been logged, plowed and plundered without their relentless efforts.

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There, he is both power broker and matchless one-man repository of institutional memory.

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Powerfully imagined two times over, first by the matchless fantasy mind of J.R.R.

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