matchless
Etymology 1

From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless, equivalent to make + -less.

Adjective

matchless

  1. Having no match; without equal.
    • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 8, in Ivanhoe:
      [T]he Prince was to declare the victor in the first day's tourney, who should receive as prize a warhorse of exquisite beauty and matchless strength.
    • 2002, Daniel Okrent, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20101022094146/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003348,00.html Books: A Prince of a Pitcher]" (Review of: Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy), Time, 30 Sept.:
      It was not his matchless talent that exalted Koufax beyond his greatest contemporaries so much as it was his knowledge that character was not connected to talent.
  2. Having no mate.
Synonyms Translations Etymology 2

From match + -less.

Adjective

matchless (not comparable)

  1. Without the use of matches for ignition.
    a matchless stove



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