What's the difference between matchless and unsurpassed?

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.

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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