particular
of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
immediately present or under consideration; in this specific instance or place: Look at this particular clause in the contract.
distinguished or different from others or from the ordinary; noteworthy; marked; unusual: She sang with particular warmth at last evening's concert.
exceptional or especial: Take particular pains with this job.
being such in an exceptional degree: a particular friend of mine.
dealing with or giving details, as an account or description, of a person; detailed; minute.
exceptionally selective, attentive, or exacting; fastidious; fussy: to be particular about one's food.
Logic.
not general; referring to an indefinite part of a whole class.
(of a proposition) containing only existential quantifiers.
partaking of the nature of an individual as opposed to a class.
Law.
noting an estate that precedes a future or ultimate ownership, as lands devised to a widow during her lifetime and after that to her children.
noting the tenant of such an estate.
an individual or distinct part, as an item of a list or enumeration.
Usually particulars. specific points, details, or circumstances: to give an investigator the particulars of a case.
Logic. an individual or a specific group within a general class.
Idioms about particular
in particular, particularly; specifically; especially: There is one book in particular that may help you.
Origin of particular
1synonym study For particular
Other words for particular
Opposites for particular
Other words from particular
- o·ver·par·tic·u·lar, adjective
- o·ver·par·tic·u·lar·ly, adverb
- un·par·tic·u·lar, adjective
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How to use particular in a sentence
At Christianity Today, Peter Chin claims Christians should preach peace instead of bogging down in the particulars of race.
Our time is so vastly different in its particulars that the parallels work only in broad strokes.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years | Jedediah Purdy | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs a writer, I tried mainly to stick close to the concrete particulars of the events and the performances I was describing.
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America | David Yaffe, Scott Saul | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThen she cajoled an aide, standing next to her, to provide particulars.
The only thing missing from this bill of particulars was elimination of the bourgeoisie.
Be Bry in his History of Brazil describes its use and also some interesting particulars concerning the plant.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Many of the pneumatic actions made to-day, however, are disappointing in these particulars.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerIt is no part of the present essay to attempt to detail the particulars of a code of social legislation.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe volumes of printed evidence give full particulars of this and other subjects.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowHe is believed to have perished by the hand of one of his own followers, but no particulars were ever known of his fate.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria Graham
British Dictionary definitions for particular
/ (pəˈtɪkjʊlə) /
(prenominal) of or belonging to a single or specific person, thing, category, etc; specific; special: the particular demands of the job; no particular reason
(prenominal) exceptional or marked: a matter of particular importance
(prenominal) relating to or providing specific details or circumstances: a particular account
exacting or difficult to please, esp in details; fussy
(of the solution of a differential equation) obtained by giving specific values to the arbitrary constants in a general equation
logic (of a proposition) affirming or denying something about only some members of a class of objects, as in some men are not wicked: Compare universal (def. 10)
property law denoting an estate that precedes the passing of the property into ultimate ownership: See also remainder (def. 3), reversion (def. 4)
a separate distinct item that helps to form a generalization: opposed to general
(often plural) an item of information; detail: complete in every particular
logic another name for individual (def. 7a)
philosophy an individual object, as contrasted with a universal: See universal (def. 12b)
in particular especially, particularly, or exactly
Origin of particular
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with particular
see in particular.
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