What's the difference between incomparable and unsurpassed?

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.

Unsurpassed


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On an analytical scale, electrophoretic methods in two dimensions or in capillaries are unsurpassed in resolution power.
  • (2) In this respect, the initial cephalometric findings are unsurpassed so far.
  • (3) There is no reason these unsurpassed skills we have in the private sector cannot help the problems the charity sector faces.
  • (4) The law provides the U.S. public with a degree of efficacy and safety of drugs which is unsurpassed in the world.
  • (5) The most persuasive arguments in favour of oral contraceptives which other reversible methods cannot claim are their unsurpassed safety as well as the simplicity of their application.
  • (6) Imaging-guided catheter techniques provide heretofore unsurpassed precision and accuracy in performance of these procedures.
  • (7) A total of 232 strains were examined, most of which were isolated from southwest Asia, where there is an unsurpassed number of indigenous host species for R. meliloti.
  • (8) I wonder if other readers would agree that for the Guardian to publish his collected works would be one suitable tribute to this unsurpassed genius of compilers.
  • (9) "He was unsurpassed for the grace he brought to every performance on and off the stage," he said.
  • (10) In his volume of autobiographical essays, A Small Boy and Others , Henry James remembers the Broadway of his youth, where he first saw paintings: “Ineffable, unsurpassable, those hours of initiation which the Broadway of the 1850s had been.
  • (11) To evaluate QL during treatment of individual patients, open interviews are unsurpassed.
  • (12) The Wright peak flow meter is unsurpassed for this purpose.
  • (13) In clinical trials to date involving more than 7,000 allergy patients, terfenadine (60 mg twice daily) has been shown to be unsurpassed in efficacy, to have a rapid onset of action, and to have an incidence of sedation not different from that of placebo and considerably less than that of conventional antihistamines.
  • (14) These data indicate unsurpassed protection of the upper tracts in those patients with neurogenic bladder dysfunction.
  • (15) For more mischievous passengers, the toilets, complete with windows, offer unsurpassed opportunities to moon entire villages from the safety of several thousand feet.
  • (16) "His commitment and effort level will be unsurpassed," he said.
  • (17) At the time of my visit, Julma Ölkky, the largest canyon lake in Finland and the jewel in Hossa’s crown, is still frozen, but canoe guide Janne is not daunted: “Hossa’s waters are unsurpassed in their accessibility.
  • (18) It delineates the profile of the individual neuron and its dendritic ramifications with unsurpassed clarity.
  • (19) Her love of music was unsurpassed and she enjoyed her time playing, travelling and competing in the Pipe Bands immensely.
  • (20) Lens angles of 0, 25, and 70 degrees, comprising a representative telescope set, accommodate virtually any endoscopic sinus procedure, diagnostic or therapeutic, with unsurpassed visualization.

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