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peerless

peerless adjective: without peer or equal; unparalleled, nonpareil. Of the highest quality, best.

Adjective

peerless (comparative more peerless, superlative most peerless)

  1. Without peer or equal; unparalleled, nonpareil. Of the highest quality, best.
    • Let's after him, / Whoſe care is gone before, to bid vs welcome: / It is a peerleſſe Kinſman.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • Having now seen himself mistaken in supposing Elfride to be peerless, nothing on earth could make him believe she was not so very bad after all.1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘XXXV’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC

peerless meaning in Malayalam, Kannada and Persian

peerless in Malayalam

peerless; unrivaled; matchless; incomparable
കിടയറ്റ kiṭayaṟṟa

peerless in Kannada

ಎಣೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ಸಾಟಿಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ಅದ್ವಿತೀಯ, ಅಸಮಾನ

peerless in Persian

without peer or equal
بیهمتا bi-hamtâ

Examples of peerless in a sentence

  • “Would you go into the dragon's lair, my peerless Wiglaf?”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47:
  • England's midfield and attack is taking shape with perfect timing for what will be the sternest of tests against France and the peerless Mbappe.2022 December 4, Phil McNulty, “England 3-0 Senegal”, in BBC Sport:

Forms of peerless

comparativemore peerless
superlativemost peerless

Origin of peerless

From Middle English pereles, perles; equivalent to peer + -less.

Words formed from peerless

Questions about peerless

What does peerless mean?
Peerless means without peer or equal; unparalleled, nonpareil. Of the highest quality, best.
What is peerless in Malayalam?
Peerless in Malayalam is കിടയറ്റ (kiṭayaṟṟa). See Peerless meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use peerless in a sentence?
“Would you go into the dragon's lair, my peerless Wiglaf?”
What part of speech is peerless?
Peerless is an adjective.

Words near peerless in the dictionary

  1. peeriest
  2. peerification
  3. peering
  4. peeringly
  5. peerings
  6. peerless
  7. peerlessly
  8. peerlessness
  9. peers
  10. peers of the realm
  11. Peerses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: peerless (page history and authors); കിടയറ്റ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); peerless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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