Adjective
matchless
- Having no match; without equal.
- 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, ch. 8:
- [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, "[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.
- 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, ch. 8:
- Having no mate.
- 2010, Sandra Brennan, "Movies: The Flying Matchmaker (1966) ↗," nytimes.com, 1 June (retrieved 13 Sep 2010):
- In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her.
- 2010, Sandra Brennan, "Movies: The Flying Matchmaker (1966) ↗," nytimes.com, 1 June (retrieved 13 Sep 2010):
- (without equal) incomparable, nonpareil, peerless, unequaled, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed
- (having no mate) single, unattached
- Russian: несравне́нный
matchless (not comparable)
- Without the use of matches for ignition.
- a matchless stove
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