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1. [s] eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team''s nonpareil center fielder"; "she''s one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity

2. [s] indefinite in time or position; "he will come one day"; "one place or another"

3. [s] particular but unspecified; "early one evening"

4. [s] used informally as an intensifier; "that is one fine dog"

5. [s] of the same kind or quality; "two animals of one species"

6. [s] being one in number--a single unit or thing; "one person is going"; "her one thought was to win"; "I''m just one player on the team"; "one day is just like the next"; "seen one horse and you''ve seen them all"

7. [s] being the single appropriate individual of a kind; only; "the one horse that could win this race"; "the one person I could marry"

8. [s] having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice"

similar words

1. [a] incomparable

2. [a] uncomparable

3. [a] indefinite

4. [a] unspecified

5. [a] extraordinary

6. [a] same

7. [a] single(a)

8. [a] united

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