| 单词 | peerless |
| 释义 | peerless (once / 3157 pages) adj Do you ever feel like one of a kind? Then maybe you are peerless, a word for someone (or something) unique, excellent, and superior. Peerless is a variation of peer — a word for folks in the same boat as you, or at least the same class. A teacher's peers are other teachers, but if she's a much better teacher than anyone, you could call her a peerless teacher. One of the many compliments given to Michael Jordan is that he was peerless. Amazing, one-of-a-kind people like Picasso, Gandhi, and Shakespeare are considered peerless. The rest of us have a lot of peers. WORD FAMILYpeerless: peerlessly+/peer: peered, peering, peerless, peers USAGE EXAMPLESSusan Sontag once wrote that “in contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) In the richness of his poetic imagination, as shown in these three etudes, Trifonov may be peerless today . Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) But they lose, narrowly, to the UN’s peerless insult to the living, its honorary ambassadorship for Wonder Woman. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) adj eminent beyond or above comparison a peerless scholar Syn matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled incomparable, uncomparable such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared |
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