What's the difference between incomparable and matchless?

Incomparable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In differing, incomparable ways it will affect every society, industry and region in the country.
  • (2) Lumley has known Heatherwick for a long time – at least since 2004, when her autobiography described him as a designer of “incomparable originality” – and Johnson for much longer.
  • (3) His insistence on the incomparable virtues of “Thai-ness” and traditional core values, and his self-proclaimed mission to restore “happiness to the people”, have invited open ridicule, even though the media and institutions are closely controlled.
  • (4) "The Lebanese government is bearing an incomparable burden with the Syrian refugees crossing its borders, but blocking Palestinians from Syria is mishandling the situation," said HRW's deputy Middle East and North Africa director, Joe Stork.
  • (5) With regard to the frequency in occurence of these retarded pharmacogenic dyskinesiae, incomparable and differing statements are found in separate authors.
  • (6) But what happened to South Vietnam and later all of Indochina, where “the second superpower” imposed its impediments only much later in the conflict, was incomparably worse.
  • (7) The questions under discussion are whether incomparability and incompatibility of the facts to be evaluated is altogether basically impossible or which prerequisites may advance realisation.
  • (8) Even Nietzsche , who loathed the philosophy that underpinned the opera, found the music "incomparable and bewildering".
  • (9) The dissolution in vitro, however, progressed incomparably better if the culture medium had been substituted with synchronous or asynchronous uterine secretions.
  • (10) Ganglioside profile variations seen within each tumor type were incomparable with differences in profile established between morphological patterns of neuroblastoma studied.
  • (11) On the contrary: Sørens incomparable melancholy, mental agony and anxiety (fear or anguish) forced the faith, existing independently of them, in a radical refining.
  • (12) She had three shows in the West End by 1963, triumph on a Lloyd Webber scale, and to incomparably higher standards, but without his managerial back-up.
  • (13) One of his idols was the critic and essayist Max Beerbohm, whose biography his father had written and whose work Jonathan, with the aid of Roger Frith , turned into a one-man show, The Incomparable Max.
  • (14) He told me during the 2011 campaign that he worried politicians didn’t fear the commission enough: We should be worried as we sign something or make a phone call – even when we are being ethical – that if I don’t do this right I can be pinged.” 5.04am BST The incomparable David Marr on Baz Barry O’Farrell is not a bad man.
  • (15) An embolus below the origin of the middle colic artery provides an incomparably more favorable hemodynamic situation than an embolus proximal to the origin of this vessel.
  • (16) The east European campaign is offensive to many Jews who view Nazism as incomparably evil because of the singularity of the Holocaust and the murder of 6 million people on grounds of race.
  • (17) In general, the etiologic manifoldness of amyloidosis presently seems to be incomparable.
  • (18) It was Jimmy at his wonderful, incomparable best – an irreplaceable character from a special breed of working-class heroes.
  • (19) The economic and cultural pay-off to writers, publishers and library users was incomparable.
  • (20) Our society is incomparably richer than it was, but there is not the same optimism.

Matchless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no equal; unequaled.
  • (a.) Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I knew Bernardine for more than 25 years, and the purity of her thought and the precision of her phrase-making, whether in conversation or in writing, were matchless.
  • (2) Dobbs writes that "the relentlessly upbeat tone was established by the court historian, Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, who wrote that Kennedy had 'dazzled the world' through a 'combination of toughness and restraint, of will, nerve and wisdom, so brilliantly controlled, so matchlessly calibrated'."
  • (3) The jury is still out on BBC3 and BBC4, as well as on BBC World, while the digitising of the corporation's matchless archive has faltered.
  • (4) Bates was an infinitely versatile actor at home in all media; but what one will remember, especially in modern drama, is his matchless ability to suggest a quicksilver intelligence imbued with mischievous irony.
  • (5) The matchless lineup included Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper , Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt and Gary Oldman.
  • (6) Listening to the voluptuous precision with which he articulated his dream of feasting "on the swelling, unctuous paps of a fat, pregnant sow", it was good to be reminded of the matchless clarity of the Richardson voice which remains one of the great treasures of my theatre-going lifetime.
  • (7) His matchless magnificence, the self-proclaimed “greatness”, was invented early as a cheery prizefighter’s publicity stunt.
  • (8) The documentation of the vascular lymphatic system culminates in the matchless work "Vasorum Lymphaticorum Corporis Humani..." by Paolo Mascagni (1755-1815) which Susini (1773-1814) immortalized in ceroplastic statues.
  • (9) Even at that matchless speed a journey to the nearest star would take thousands of years.
  • (10) In his next tweet Fry said he thought Chahidi – currently playing the Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger as well as the former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind in Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse – should win the category "for his matchless Maria."
  • (11) Especially the last yields three-dimensional casts which are matchless in elegance and definition of the relationship between lymphatic and blood vessels; 3) three-dimensional models from serial ultrathin sections, which represent a fundamental tool in order to go through the processes of transendothelial transport; 4) in vivo cinematography documents the lymph pulsed flow, the contractile activity of superficial lymphatic collectors and the play of their valves.
  • (12) "A moment for English cricket fans to do what they do with such matchless wit and poise - lose really badly.
  • (13) Surrounded by glass panels and comfortable limestone walls, they are missing the best view of the museum, which is from the far side of the river, a Styx with a matchless prospect and the promise of a return trip.