unique
/juːˈniːk/
unique adjective: being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
Adjective
unique (comparative uniquer or more unique, superlative uniquest or most unique)
- Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
- Every person has a unique life, therefore every person has a unique journey.
- Perhaps the reader will wonder why we have placed our " beings " on a sphere rather than on another closed surface. But this choice has its justification in the fact that, of all closed surfaces, the sphere is unique in possessing the property that all points on it are equivalent.1920, Robert W. Lawson, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, translation of original by Albert Einstein
- Synonyms:
- one of a kind, sui generis, singular, one-off
- Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
- Particular, characteristic.
- 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
Noun
unique (plural uniques)
- A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.
- The phoenix, the unique of birds.a. 1859, Thomas De Quincey, Language
- […] uniques of the game, Sauron and Morgoth, are found on levels 99 and 100 of the dungeon respectively, […]2020, John Harris, Exploring Roguelike Games
unique meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
unique in Hindi
- one of a kind
- अनोखा anokhā, अनूठा anūṭhā
unique in Tamil
- தனித்துவம் வாய்ந்த, தனித்தன்மை வாய்ந்த, தனித்த, அருந்தனி
unique in Marathi
- अद्वितीय, आगळेवेगळे, आगळीवेगळी
unique in Urdu
- unique, singular, apart, alone, separate, isolated
- منفرد munfarid
- unique, rare
- اچھوتا achūtā
- unique, strange
- بدیع badīʻ
- unique, singular, incomparable
- یتیم yatīm
More languagesFewer languages
- unique in Bengali
- অদ্বিতীয় odditiẏo
- unique in Malayalam
- അനിതരമായ, തനതായ, സമാനമില്ലാത്ത, അതുല്യമായ
- unique in Kannada
- ದೊರೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ಎಣೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ಒಂದೇ ಇರುವ, ಸಾಟಿಯಿಲ್ಲದ
- unique in Punjabi
- انوکھا aṇokhā
- unique in Gujarati
- અનન્ય, અનોખો, અનોખું
- unique in Odia
- ଅନନ୍ଯ଼, ଅଦ୍ୱିତୀଯ଼
- unique in Sanskrit
- अद्वैत ádvaita
- unique in Nepali
- अनुपम anupam
- unique in Arabic
- فَرِيد farīd, فَذّ faḏḏ, وَحِيد waḥīd
- unique in Indonesian
- unik
- unique in Persian
- یکتا yektâ, بیمانند bi-mânand, منحصربفرد monhaserbefard, تک tak
- unique in Vietnamese
- duy nhất, độc nhất, độc nhất vô nhị, có một không hai
- Sindhi
- منفرد mufarid
Examples of unique in a sentence
- ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Admiralty Island contains unique resources of scientific interest which need protection to assure continued opportunities for study.1978, Jimmy Carter, Proclamation 4611:
- A very interesting history of United Nations at war in Korea, done in an^([sic]) unique question and answer style.1998, Paul M. Edwards, The Korean War: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
- GPS assigns a unique C/A code and a unique P code to each satellite.2002, The American Practical Navigator:
Synonyms of unique
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Antonyms
Forms of unique
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | uniquer |
| comparative | more unique |
| superlative | uniquest |
| superlative | most unique |
| alternative form (obsolete) | unic |
| alternative form (obsolete) | unick |
| Noun | |
| plural | uniques |
Origin of unique
Borrowed from French unique, from Latin unicus.
Words formed from unique
Phrases with unique
Words that rhyme with unique
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- leak
- seek
- bespeak
- pique
- tweak
- reek
- sleek
- geek
- peek
- squeak
- week
- wreak
- boutique
- clique
- creek
- forspeak
- gleek
- bleak
- cacique
- creak
- critique
- deke
- eek
- eke
- fleak
- on fleek
- respeak
- Tajik
- teak
- technique
- tongue-in-chic
- chic
- cleek
- desqueak
- leek
- malik
- meek
- midweek
- misspeak
- physique
- pratique
- shriek
- speke
- streek
- Zeke
- -speak
- Adam's Peak
- advertique
Questions about unique
- What does unique mean?
- Unique means being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
- What is unique in Hindi?
- Unique in Hindi is अनोखा (anokhā), अनूठा (anūṭhā). See Unique meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use unique in a sentence?
- ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique.
- What part of speech is unique?
- Unique can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce unique?
- Unique is pronounced /juːˈniːk/.
Words near unique in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unique (page history and authors); unique (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unique (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); انوکھا (Urdu) (page history and authors); অদ্বিতীয় (Bengali) (page history and authors); unique (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unique (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); انوکھا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); unique (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unique (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); अद्वैत (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); अनुपम (Nepali) (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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