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Adjective singular has 5 senses
- remarkable, singular - unusual or striking; "a remarkable sight"; "such poise is singular in one so young"
Antonym: ordinary (indirect, via extraordinary)
- curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular - beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
Antonym: familiar (indirect, via strange)
- singular - being a single and separate person or thing; "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
Antonym: common (indirect, via individual)
- singular - grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit
Antonyms: plural, dual
- singular, unique - the single one of its kind; "a singular example"; "the unique existing example of Donne's handwriting"; "a unique copy of an ancient manuscript"; "certain types of problems have unique solutions"
Antonym: multiple (indirect, via single)
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