peerless
Other forms: peerlessly
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.
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eminent beyond or above comparison“a peerless scholar”synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalledincomparable, uncomparablesuch that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared
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Vocabulary lists containing peerless
In this tragedy, Macbeth's belief in a prophecy and his ambition to become king lead to murder and madness.
The suffix -less, meaning "without," is added to nouns and verbs to form adjectives. For example, a hopeless situation is a situation without hope. Learn these words that use the suffix less.