different between racial vs unique
racial
English
Etymology
1862, race +? -ial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e???l/
- Rhymes: -e???l
Adjective
racial (comparative more racial, superlative most racial)
- Of or relating to a race (or a people).
- the racial complexion
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
racial (plural racials)
- (gaming) A skill possessed by all characters of a certain race.
Further reading
- "racial" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 248.
Anagrams
- Alaric, Arcila, Claira
Catalan
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /r?.si?al/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ra.si?al/
Adjective
racial (masculine and feminine plural racials)
- racial
Related terms
- raça
Further reading
- “racial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
race +? -ial
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.sjal/
Adjective
racial (feminine singular raciale, masculine plural raciaux, feminine plural raciales)
- racial
Related terms
- race
- racialement
- racialiser
Further reading
- “racial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- raclai
Galician
Pronunciation
Adjective
racial m or f (plural raciais)
- racial
Further reading
- “racial” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese
Etymology
raça +? -ial
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?a?sjaw/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /???sja?/
Adjective
racial m or f (plural raciais, comparable)
- Of or relating to a race of people; racial.
- (biology) Of or related to a race or subspecies of a population; racial.
- Of or relating to a breed of animal; racial.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English racial; compare raza (“race”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ra??jal/, [ra??jal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ra?sjal/, [ra?sjal]
- Hyphenation: ra?cial
Adjective
racial (plural raciales)
- racial
Related terms
- raza
Further reading
- “racial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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unique
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French unique.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju??ni?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Adjective
unique (comparative uniquer or more unique, superlative uniquest or most unique)
- (not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
- Synonyms: one of a kind, sui generis, singular
- Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
- Particular, characteristic.
- (proscribed) Of a rare quality, unusual.
Usage notes
- The comparative and superlative forms uniquer or more unique and uniquest or most unique, as well as the use of unique with modifiers as in fairly unique and very unique, are grammatically proscribed, with the reasoning that either something is unique or it is not.
Derived terms
- uniquely
- uniqueness
- uniquity
Related terms
- unicity
- one-of-a-kind
- inimitable
Translations
Noun
unique (plural uniques)
- A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.
- a. 1859, Thomas De Quincey, Language
- The phoenix, the unique of birds.
- a. 1859, Thomas De Quincey, Language
Translations
Further reading
- unique in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- unique in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “unique” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?nicus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.nik/
Adjective
unique (plural uniques)
- unique
- only
Derived terms
Related terms
- un
Descendants
- ? Danish: unik
- ? Dutch: uniek
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: unik
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: unik
- ? Swedish: unik
- ? Turkish: ünik
Further reading
- “unique” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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