particular

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Pertaining only to a part of something

   Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.

2. 2

   Specific

   Specific; discrete; concrete.

   • I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.
   • We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.
   • I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined locks to part / And each particular hair to stand on end
3. 3

   Specialised

   Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.

   • I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
   • wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth
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   1. 4

      Known only to an individual person or group

      Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.

      • or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.
   2. 5

      Distinguished in some way

      Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).

      • My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.
      • I didn't have any particular interest in the book.
      • He brought no particular news.
   3. 6

      Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details

      Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.

      • He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.
      • These women are more particular about their appearance.
      • There is a scraper as well as a mat, and Mrs. Challenger is most particular.
   4. 7

      Concerned with, or attentive to, details

      Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.

      • a full and particular account of an accident
   5. 8

      Containing a part only

      Containing a part only; limited.

      • a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder
   6. 9

      Holding a particular estate.

      • a particular tenant
   7. 10

      Forming a part of a genus

      Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.

      • a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".
   8. 11

      A small individual part of something larger

      A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.

      • I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.
   9. 12

      A person's own individual case.

      • Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it.
      • temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public[…]or such as concern our particular
   10. 13

       A particular case

       A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)

       • When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals.

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