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unic

unic is the obsolete form of unique.

Meaning of unique

Adjective

unique (comparative uniquer or more unique, superlative uniquest or most unique)

  1. (not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
    • Every person has a unique life, therefore every person has a unique journey.
  2. Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
  3. Particular, characteristic.
  4. (often, proscribed) Rare or unusual.
    • And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique, the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.1950, J.D. Salinger, For Esmé—With Love and Squalor

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Questions about unic

What is unic the obsolete form of?
Unic is the obsolete form of unique.

Words near unic in the dictionary

  1. unibracteolate
  2. unibranchiate
  3. unibrow
  4. unibrowed
  5. unibrows
  6. unic
  7. unica
  8. unicalcarate
  9. unicameral
  10. unicameralism
  11. unicameralist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unic (page history and authors); unique (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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