unique

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   highly unusual or rare but not the single instance

   spoke with a unique accent

2. 2
   adj

   Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.

   Every person has a unique life, therefore every person has a unique journey.

3. 3
   adj

   Rare or unusual.

   And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique, the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.

4. 4
   noun

   A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.

   The phoenix, the unique of birds.

5. 5
   adj

   radically distinctive and without equal

6. 6
   adj

   the single one of its kind

7. 7
   adj

   (followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality

8. 8
   adj

   Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.

Etymology

Borrowed from French unique. Piecewise doublet of any.