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unmatched

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un·matched  (n-mcht)
adj.
1. Not matched: unmatched socks.
2. Without equal or rival; peerless: unmatched skill.

unmatched
Adjective
1. not equalled or surpassed: his pace is unmatched by any other modern player
2. not coordinated or forming a set with anything else: three unmatched chairs
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.unmatchedunmatched - of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g.
mismatched - either not matched or unsuitably matched
2.unmatchedunmatched - eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art"
incomparable, uncomparable - such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared; "an incomparable week of rest and pleasure"; "the computer proceeds with its incomparable logic and efficiency"; "this report is incomparable with the earlier ones because of different breakdowns of the data"
Translations
Spanish unmatched [ʌnˈmætʃt] adjincomparable
French unmatched [ʌnˈmætʃt] adjsans égal(e)
German unmatched [ʌnˈmætʃt] adjunübertroffen
Italian unmatched [ʌnˈmætʃt] adjsenza uguali

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"At all events, let us go there, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "for, so that I see her, it is the same to me whether it be over a wall, or at a window, or through the chink of a door, or the grate of a garden; for any beam of the sun of her beauty that reaches my eyes will give light to my reason and strength to my heart, so that I shall be unmatched and unequalled in wisdom and valour.
He and his pack then draw off into a sheltered corner of the lawn, where the dogs roll on the grass, and play or growl angrily at one another, ever and anon breaking out into furious fight speedily to be quelled by Tom's voice, unmatched at rating, or the snaky thongs of the whips.
Old Captain Peleg, many years her chief-mate, before he commanded another vessel of his own, and now a retired seaman, and one of the principal owners of the Pequod, --this old Peleg, during the term of his chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it, all over, with a quaintness both of material and device, unmatched by anything except it be Thorkill-Hake's carved buckler or bedstead.
 
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