(a.) Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; -- often used as a name.
(a.) A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
(a.) A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch.
(a.) Any other similar bird of the same genus.
(a.) Having no equal; peerless.
Example Sentences:
(1) After meeting him, I don't feel I'm any closer to understanding how anything in Brian Wilson's world works or worked – not the astonishing, nonpareil burst of 60s creativity, not his latterday renaissance – but I can't think of anything else to ask, or at least I can't think of anything that won't just elicit a yes or a no.
(2) After Ali’s final fight, Hugh McIlvanney, the nonpareil of boxing correspondents, described him as “the king who went out on a dustcart”.
(4) For another, I’m a journalist, and thus aware that among Prince’s panoply of talents lies a nonpareil ability to screw with journalists.
(5) He was a nonpareil orchestrator of outrage during their early career, but proved incapable of dealing with its consequences.
(6) (“Among Prince’s panoply of talents lies a nonpareil ability to screw with journalists,” Petridis wrote at the time.)
(7) Immediate-release granules (IRGs) were prepared by coating particles of Nonpareil 103 with bermoprofen.
(8) Commercially available lattices are often used to coat nonpareils or beads.
(9) Sentimentalists are already building barricades against the notion that Klose, an unspectacular penalty-box finisher, could leave South Africa as the nonpareil of strikers.
Unrivaled
Definition:
(a.) Having no rival; without a competitor; peerless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brian McKeon, a senior Pentagon policy official, defended Lewis’ efficacy to the Guardian, citing his “bipartisan experience and unrivaled expertise” on Guantánamo matters gained from his prior stint as a congressional aide.
(2) The described assay is unrivaled in simplicity, rapidity, and reproducibility and generates results for a large number of samples within hours.
(3) For procedures of the upper respiratory tract, it is unrivaled by the synthetic anesthetics.
(4) As part of the package, EA gets its branding on match and player performance statistics for the League, and also receives unrivaled access to the teams and players.
(5) The scrutiny over Facebook’s treatment of editorial content has been intensifying for months, reflecting the site’s unrivaled power and influence in distributing news alongside everything else its users share on the site.
(6) Much of the new information builds on what already has been established by MR imaging, namely its unrivaled position in staging musculoskeletal tumors and demonstrating the extent of marrow disease.
(7) For depiction of soft-tissue masses, MR imaging is unrivaled.
(8) International inspectors will enjoy unrivaled access to all nuclear sites and Iran’s program will be monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
(9) Moreover, the primate visual system exhibits a degree of precision in the specification of the nasotemporal division unrivaled among the mammalian species studied to date.
(10) The Habs have lifted the Cup an unrivaled 24 times , but the franchise has failed to recapture the aura and mystique which helped them to win at least one title every seven seasons for 45 years - now it’s been over two decades since their fans gathered throughout Quebec to celebrate the ultimate victory.
(11) Although extracapsular cataract extraction and posterior chamber lens technology is of unrivaled safety and efficacy, the following aspects command considerable attention: chronic postoperative inflammation, inhibition of posterior capsular opacification, facilitation of YAG-laser posterior capsulectomy, prevention of ultraviolet radiation exposure, and sulcus versus capsular-bag fixation of posterior chamber lenses.