nonpareil
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Is nonpareil a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (frequently postpositive) Unequalled, unrivalled; unique.Examples: "He informed the clerk that he would remain three or four days, inquired concerning the sailing of European steamships, and sank into the blissful inanition of the nonpareil hotel with the contented air of a traveller in his favorite inn."; "A veritable artist, possessed of a deftness nonpareil with cotton swab and evacuation-hypo, the medical attaché is known among the shrinking upper classes of petro-Arab nations as the DeBakey of maxillofacial yeast […]"; "[…]the series stars Samantha Morton as Margaret Wells, a London brothel owner; Ms. Brown Findlay as Charlotte, her older daughter and the city’s courtesan nonpareil; […]"Synonyms: alone, azygous, incomparable, matchless, nonpareil, peerless, singular, sui generisAntonyms: abnormal, atypical, exceptional, exotic, uncommon, endangered, extraordinary, rare
noun (English)
1. (countable) A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.Examples: "My lord and master loves you. O, such love / Could be but recompens'd though you were crown'd / The nonpareil of beauty!"; "King John of France, once prisoner in England, came […] to see the Countess of Salisbury, the nonpareil of those times, and his dear mistress."; "(a wren) crept or crawled, just like a true tree-creeper. I was, as I say, quite close, and watched it most attentively. It certainly—as far as good looking can settle it—did not assist itself with the wings. They remained close against the sides, or, if they moved at all, it was imperceptible to my eyes (which, by the way, are non-pareils)."countable
2. (countable, biology)countableuncountable
3. (countable, biology)Australiaarchaiccountableuncountable
4. (countable, biology)UScountableuncountable
5. (countable, biology)archaiccountableuncountable
6. (countable, chiefly US, cooking)USarchaiccountableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary