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Unequaled

adj.capable, joyfulformal

What it means

Not matched by any comparable person or thing in a valued quality.

Reach for it when Offering strong praise for excellence shown through comparison.

Her unequaled knowledge of the watershed shortened the search by hours.

Choose between these

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  • everyday

    outstanding

    excellence should be praised without absolute ranking

    not when does not claim first place

  • professional

    best-in-class

    top performance within a defined category

    not when commercial jargon outside measured products

  • professional

    unmatched

    comparison finds no equivalent performance

    not when may mean merely not paired in other contexts

  • formal

    unsurpassed

    nothing has exceeded the quality or record

    not when allows an exact equal to exist

  • literary

    incomparable

    quality resists meaningful comparison

    not when can mean unlike rather than better

  • literary

    peerless

    no equal exists in the relevant field

    not when can sound grander than the evidence warrants

Said against

3
  • ordinary
  • inferior
  • surpassed

It naturally appears in

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  • unequaled skill

    Unequaled skill let the mason repair the arch without dismantling it.

  • virtually unequaled

    The archive is virtually unequaled for maps of the early railway.

  • unequaled record

    Her unequaled record includes forty years without a preventable loss.

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