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sin·gu·lar  (snggy-lr)
adj.
1. Being only one; individual.
2. Being the only one of a kind; unique.
3. Being beyond what is ordinary or usual; remarkable.
4. Deviating from the usual or expected; odd. See Synonyms at strange.
5. Grammar
a. Of, relating to, or being a noun, pronoun, or adjective denoting a single person or thing or several entities considered as a single unit.
b. Of, relating to, or being a verb expressing the action or state of a single subject.
6. Logic Of or relating to the specific as distinguished from the general; individual.
n. Grammar
1. The singular number or a form designating it.
2. A word having a singular number.

[Middle English singuler, from Old French, from Latin singulris, from singulus, single; see single.]

singu·lar·ly adv.
singu·lar·ness n.
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Adv.1.singularly - in a singular manner or to a singular degree; "Lord T. was considered singularly licentious even for the courts of Russia and Portugal; he acquired three wives and fourteen children during his Portuguese embassy alone"

singularly
Translations
singularly [ˈsɪŋgjʊləlɪ] ADV (= extraordinarily) → extraordinariamente, singularmente
he was singularly unhelpfulno se mostró dispuesto a ayudar en absoluto
a singularly inappropriate remarkuna observación de lo más inoportuno
singularly [ˈsɪŋgjʊrli] advsingulièrement
singular noun n (GRAMMAR)indénombrable m
singularly
adv
außerordentlich; appropriate, unattractive(ganz) besonders, überaus; he was singularly unimpresseder war ganz und gar nicht beeindruckt; he has singularly failed to achieve thiser ist mit seinem Versuch, dies zu erreichen, vollkommen gescheitert; hey are singularly lacking in originalityes fehlt ihnen ganz und gar an Originalität
(dated, = strangely) → sonderbar, eigenartig
singularly [ˈsɪŋgjʊləlɪ] adv (frm) → singolarmente
singularly [ˈsɪŋgjʊləlɪ] adv (frm) → singolarmente


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As they rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other, "What a singularly useless tree is the Plane
Comrades of the thunder and companions of death, I cannot but regard it as singularly fortunate that we who by conviction and sympathy are designated by nature as the champions of that fairest of her products, the white metal, should also, by a happy chance, be engaged mostly in the business of mining it.
He was active, ready and obliging, of dauntless courage, and singularly open and fearless in the expression of his feelings.
 
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