extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
unusual or strange; odd; different: singular behavior.
being the only one of its kind; distinctive; unique: a singular example.
separate; individual.
Grammar. noting or pertaining to a member of the category of number found in many languages that indicates that a word form has one referent or denotes one person, place, thing, or instance, as Englishboy and thing, which are singular nouns, or goes, a singular form of the verb go.Compare dual (def. 4), plural (def. 4).
Logic.
of or relating to something individual, specific, or not general.
(of a proposition) containing no quantifiers, as “Socrates was mortal.”
Mathematics.
of or relating to a linear transformation from a vector space to itself that is not one-to-one.
of or relating to a matrix having a determinant equal to zero.
Obsolete. private.
Obsolete. single.
nounGrammar.
the singular number.
a form in the singular.
Origin of singular
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English word from Latin word singulāris.See single, -ar1
Humans reinvented a way to directly capture energy from the sun—previously the singular achievement of photosynthetic organisms.
Dawn of the Heliocene - Issue 90: Something Green|Summer Praetorius|September 16, 2020|Nautilus
One crucial aspect from this point of view is having personal account managers and being able to continually check the status of your campaign with a singular point of contact.
How would an SEO agency be built today? Part 2: Current business model(s)|Sponsored Content: SEOmonitor|September 16, 2020|Search Engine Land
What struck me immediately was his willingness to invent a new, singular model, freeing himself from the usual constraints of the fashion system.
Kerby Jean-Raymond Launch ‘Your Friends In New York’|Nandi Howard|September 11, 2020|Essence.com
The problem is that political parties are not singular entities capable of easily changing course.
Why There Are So Few Moderate Republicans Left|Lee Drutman (drutman@newamerica.org)|August 24, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Maggie Curran says Belkin International’s approach is to view each component of a brand’s Amazon presence as part of the total, singular story the brand tells via Amazon, not just a driver of one-off sales.
Deep Dive: How to master Amazon advertising in the new normal|Digiday|July 29, 2020|Digiday
From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Her single and singular goal in every case is to pursue justice as determined by the law.
For Next AG, Obama Picks a Quiet Fighter With a Heavy Punch|Michael Daly|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The singular author Don Carpenter took his own life in 1995.
Don Carpenter Was a Novelist Both Lacerating and Forgiving|Louis B. Jones|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The entire city can seem like a singular monument to his decades in office.
Can America’s Favorite Ex-Con Mayor Win Again?|David Freedlander|June 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Eastwood is a singular screen presence, and he can be electrifying in the right role.
‘Jersey Boys’ Proves Clint Eastwood is Hollywood’s Most Overrated Director|Andrew Romano|June 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His advice, however, sunk deep into my mind, and has often been of singular value to me since.
Parker's Second Reader|Richard G. Parker
That is to say he describes them as Predicables simply by contradistinction from Singular names.
Logic, Inductive and Deductive|William Minto
What singular warning of chance or of destiny tore them asunder?
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2)|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
They are all singular, many of them beautiful, and some splendid; yet they have never been popular plants in our collections.
The American Flower Garden Directory|Thomas Hibbert
A singular proviso this in a country boasting so much of freedom!
In nouns, pronouns, and verbs, the grammatical form that refers to only one thing. In the following sentence, the singular words are italicized: “The police officer stops anyone who crosses before the light changes.” (Compare plural; see agreement.)