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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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nutty
English
Etymology
nut +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?ti/
- Rhymes: -?ti
Adjective
nutty (comparative nuttier, superlative nuttiest)
- Containing nuts.
- Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
- 1997, Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook, Rodale, ?ISBN, p. 210:
- Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a a pleasantly nutty flavor.
- 1997, Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook, Rodale, ?ISBN, p. 210:
- Barmy, crazy, mad.
- (Britain, dated) Extravagantly fashionable
- 1932, Frank Richards, "The Complete Outsider", The Magnet
- Skinner's friendship with his nutty pals seemed to have come to a sudden end.
- 1932, Frank Richards, "The Complete Outsider", The Magnet
Usage notes
In sense “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane” or “enthused, agitated” (“the crowd went nuts”), for which “nutty” is not used: *“the crowd went nutty”.
Synonyms
- nuts, squirrelly
- See also Thesaurus:insane
Related terms
- nutter
- nutty as a fruitcake
Translations
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