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US
/ˈpɪɹɫɪs/
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[ UK /pˈiələs/ ]
[ UK /pˈiələs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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eminent beyond or above comparison
the team's nonpareil center fielder
she's one girl in a million
unrivaled mastery of her art
matchless beauty
a peerless scholar
wrote with unmatchable clarity
the one and only Muhammad Ali
infamy unmatched in the Western world
How To Use peerless In A Sentence
- New Zealand remain peerless but Australia are back with conviction. Times, Sunday Times
- You experience a thriving mix of Maori, forestry, arts and crafts, a champion Maori rugby team, Tolaga Bay knitwear, peerless beaches and matchless surf.
- Ascot has royalty, Goodwood offers glorious views towards England's south coast, but, for sheer style and panache, Longchamp is peerless.
- From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The son of a Sydney grocer, Rosewall was a natural left-hander but was taught to play right-handed by his father and developed a peerless backhand.
- I've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that won't satisfy my insatiable appetite for your peerless wit.
- You can't have one without the other - Milne's quiet wit peerlessly complemented by his illustrator.
- Though this tale of reincarnation and a love that crossed generations starred the peerless Barbara Harris, as a psychically gifted young woman with a past life just waiting to leap out of her, it was generally agreed that the 1965 production was overdressed, overplotted and more or less out of its mind. NYT > Home Page
- Although the Mutton would never sanction wearing long johns as outer wear, they are peerless underwear for "weather events" such as the cold snap we have all endured of late.
- Now let your worships turn your eyes to that tower that appears there, which is supposed to be one of the towers of the alcazar of Saragossa, now called the now called the Aljaferia; that lady who appears on that balcony dressed in Moorish fashion is the peerless Melisendra, for many a time she used to gaze from thence upon the road to France, and seek consolation in her captivity by thinking of Paris and her husband. Don Quixote
