Incomparable

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incomparable \In*com"pa*ra*ble\, a. [L. incomparabilis: cf. F.
     incomparable. See {In-} not, and {Comparable}.]
     Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others;
     unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless;
     peerless; transcendent.
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           A merchant of incomparable wealth.       --Shak.
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           A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir
           Isaac Newton for a patron.               --Bp.
                                                    Warburton.
     -- {In*com"pa*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*com"pa*ra*bly}, adv.
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           Delights incomparably all those corporeal things. --Bp.
                                                    Wilkins.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incomparable
       adj : 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" [syn: {uncomparable}] [ant: {comparable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "incomparable":
     alien, apart, beyond compare, beyond comparison, detached,
     disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissimilar,
     dissociated, easily first, exotic, extraneous, facile princeps,
     foreign, immortal, incommensurable, incommensurate, independent,
     inimitable, insular, invincible, irrelative, isolated, matchless,
     nonpareil, not comparable to, nulli secundus, of different orders,
     other, outlandish, peerless, removed, second to none, segregate,
     separate, separated, strange, sui generis, superior, superlative,
     supreme, surpassing, transcendent, unaffiliated, unallied,
     unapproachable, unapproached, unassociated, unbeatable,
     unconnected, unequaled, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unlike,
     unmatchable, unmatched, unparagoned, unparalleled, unpeered,
     unrelatable, unrelated, unrivaled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed,
     without equal, without parallel
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  incomparable
       
           Two elements a, b of a set are incomparable
          under some relation <= if neither a <= b, nor b <= a.
       
          (1995-09-21)