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matchless

adj

Etymology

From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”), Danish mageløs (“matchless”).

  1. derived from makeless

Definitions

  1. Having no match

    Having no match; without equal.

    • [T]he Prince was to declare the victor in the first day's tourney, who should receive as prize a warhorse of exquisite beauty and matchless strength.
    • It was not his matchless talent that exalted Koufax beyond his greatest contemporaries so much as it was his knowledge that character was not connected to talent.

  2. Having no mate.

    • In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her.

  3. Without the use of matches for ignition.

    • a matchless stove

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at matchless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at matchless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at matchless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA