Radically distinctive and without equal:
— Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint.

synoniemen: alone, unequaled, unequalled, unparalleled.

Roget 18: dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind; etc. (class) 75 unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented etc. 83; original.    nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid [Lat.], as like a dock as a daisy, very like a whale" [Hamlet]; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo [Lat.].    diversified etc. 16.1. ... meer laten zien

Roget 87: one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone; kithless^†.    unaccompanied, unattended; solus [Lat.], single-handed; singular, odd, unique, unrepeated^†, azygous, first and last; isolated etc. (disjoined) 44; insular.    monospermous^†; unific^†, uniflorous^†, unifoliate^†, unigenital^†, uniliteral^†, unijocular^†, unimodal [Math.], unimodular^†.    lone, lonely, lonesome; desolate, dreary.    insecable^†, inseverable^†, indiscerptible^†; compact, indivisible, atomic, irresolvable^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 20: unimitated^†, uncopied^†; unmatched, unparalleled; inimitable etc. 13; unique, original; creative, inventive, untranslated; exceptional, rare, sui generis uncommon [Lat.], unexampled.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 83: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous^†; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.    unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful etc. 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre [Fr.], out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis [Lat.]; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues [Fr.], preternatural; denaturalized^†.    heterogeneous, heteroclite [Gramm.], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal^†; asymmetric etc. 243; adelomorphous^†, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous^†.    qualified etc. 469.    singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.    newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: niepowtarzalny

followed by `to' Applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality.

The single one of its kind:
— The unique existing example of Donne's handwriting.
— A unique copy of an ancient manuscript.
— Certain types of problems have unique solutions.

synoniem: singular.

Highly unusual or rare but not the single instance.

Pools: unikatowy, unikalny