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Word entry · 9 letters

matchless

Best crossword clue

"No equal"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted acehlmsstStarts with MEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. eminent beyond or above comparison

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • [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.
  • In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her.

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