particular
adjective
of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general.
unparticular
-
a word derived from
particular.
Example Sentences
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"Ah, he's his grandfer's own grandson!—his grandfer were just such a nice unparticular man!" said the maltster.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
"Ah, he's his grandfer's own grandson! — his grandfer were just such a nice unparticular man!" said the maltster.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
At present our particular, or unparticular, company, numbers twenty-one men, with five troop horses and some officers' chargers, all that is left of the hundred and twenty mounted men that left Maitland Camp in May.
From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by P. T. Ross
