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matchless

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Definition of matchless

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having no match; without equal.
    “[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.”
    “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.”
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adj

  1. Having no match; without equal.
    “[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.”
    “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.
    “In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her.”
  3. (not-comparable)Without the use of matches for ignition.
    “a matchless stove”

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Etymology

From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”), Danish mageløs (“matchless”).

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