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How to pronounce singular in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy
Derivation singularity


singular behavior.
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Synonyms remarkable
Derivation singularity


such poise is singular in one so young.
Type Words
Synonyms singular form
Type of signifier, form, descriptor, word form
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Synonyms unique
Derivation singularity


a singular example.
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Derivation singularity


can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?.
every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind.
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Examples of singular

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It is a singular and powerful book despite its difficult political connotations.
From the guardian.co.uk
It's about offshore accounts used for a singular purpose, to avoid paying taxes.
From the economist.com
The singular unity of how evolution works is the great power of Darwin's theory.
From the post-gazette.com
To this man Mickey Rourke brings a melancholy dignity and a singular resilience.
From the thenewstribune.com
When we think of a brain we think of it as an organ, as a singular neural thing.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
The other part of this is the singular nature of the pipeline and the tar sands.
From the scienceblogs.com
We are already heading towards a singular construction with Federalist elements.
From the economist.com
Descriptivists note that nearly everyone uses singular they, at least in speech.
From the economist.com
Dor's story is singular and intriguing, but cluttered with Thoughts For The Day.
From the nzherald.co.nz
More examples
  • Remarkable: unusual or striking; "a remarkable sight"; "such poise is singular in one so young"
  • The form of a word that is used to denote a singleton
  • Curious: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular ...
  • Being a single and separate person or thing; "can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?"; "every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind"-William James
  • Composed of one member, set, or kind
  • Grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit
  • The single one of its kind; "a singular example"; "the unique existing example of Donne's handwriting"; "a unique copy of an ancient manuscript"; "certain types of problems have unique solutions"
  • (singularly) in a singular manner or to a singular degree; "Lord T. was considered singularly licentious even for the courts of Russia and Portugal; he acquired three wives and fourteen children during his Portuguese embassy alone"
  • SINGULAR (typeset Singular) is a computer algebra system for polynomial computations with special emphasis on the needs of commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory. SINGULAR is free software released under the GNU General Public License. ...