More definitions of "singular":
- (noun): The form of a word that is used to denote a singleton.
Synonyms: singular form
- (adj): The single one of its kind.
Example: "A singular example"
Synonyms: unique
- (adj): Unusual or striking.
Example: "Such poise is singular in one so young"
Synonyms: remarkable
- (adj): Being a single and separate person or thing.
Example: "Can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?"; "every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind"-William James
Famous quotes containing the word singular:
“The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“mouth to mouth, the covers
pulled over our shoulders
we drowse as horses drowse afield,
in accord; though the fall cold
surrounds our warm bed, and though
by day we are singular and often lonely.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Each your doing,
So singular in each particular,
Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds,
That all your acts are queens.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)