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matchless

American  
[mach-lis] / ˈmætʃ lɪs /

adjective

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

    matchless courage.


matchless British  
/ ˈmætʃlɪs /

adjective

  1. unequalled; incomparable; peerless

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of matchless

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

Example Sentences

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Adapted by screenwriter Andy Wolk into a really good 1987 TV movie with Michelle Pfeiffer, it makes you want to spend all day just listening to that assured, insinuating, pseudo-anthropological, matchless O’Hara voice.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

The matchless pairing of performer and part — both Fanny and Barbra were self-deprecating singers with outsize dreams — sent Streisand into the showbiz stratosphere.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2022

Transitions may be concrete, as is the one Mark Twain uses: “Well, one matchless summer’s day. . .”

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Give him a matchless mind for tactics, a background the equal of mine.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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