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(not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
Synonyms: one of a kind, sui generis, singular, one-off

Every person has a unique life, therefore every person has a unique journey.
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- 1920, Robert W. Lawson, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, translation of original by Albert Einstein:
  Perhaps the reader will wonder why we have placed our " beings " on a sphere rather than on another closed surface. But this choice has its justification in the fact that, of all closed surfaces, the sphere is unique in possessing the property that all points on it are equivalent.
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- 1941, Allen v. Walt Disney:
  3. Both were written and published with the same unique chorus structure;
  4. Both compositions were written and published with the same unique harmonic structure;
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- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
  ‘ […] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
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- 1978, Jimmy Carter, Proclamation 4611:
  Admiralty Island contains unique resources of scientific interest which need protection to assure continued opportunities for study.
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- 1998, Paul M. Edwards, The Korean War: An Annotated Bibliography‎, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
  A very interesting history of United Nations at war in Korea, done in an^[sic] unique question and answer style.
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- 2002, The American Practical Navigator:
  GPS assigns a unique C/A code and a unique P code to each satellite.
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Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
Particular, characteristic.
- 1999, Harry J. Cargas, Problems Unique to the Holocaust‎:
(often proscribed) Rare or unusual.
- 1950, J.D. Salinger, For Esmé—With Love and Squalor:
  And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique, the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.
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Usage notes

The comparative and superlative forms uniquer or more unique and uniquest or most unique, as well as the use of unique with modifiers as in fairly unique and very unique, are criticised with the reasoning that either something is unique or it is not. These modified senses of “unique”, however, have been in use since at least as far back as the 18th century, with “unique” taking its common secondary sense of “uncommon, unusual, remarkable”.

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Translations

one of a kind — see also singular,‎ exceptional,‎ unrepeatable,‎ extraordinary

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Abkhaz: зда́ҟам (zdáqʼam)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#UNIQUE, а́даздам (ádazdam)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#UNIQUE, иуника́лу (iwnikʼálu)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#UNIQUE, иҷы́доу (ičʼə́dow)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#UNIQUE, ҷы́далатәи (čʼə́dalatʷʼi)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#UNIQUE, ихазу́ (ixazú)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#UNIQUE, и́заҵәу (ízacʷʼu)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#UNIQUE, а́дазҳәазҵам (ádazḥʷazcʼam)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#UNIQUE, зеиԥшы́ҟам (zejpŝə́qʼam)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#UNIQUE, зеиԥшҟамла́ц (zejpŝqʼamlác)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#UNIQUE
Afrikaans: uniek (af)Category:Terms with Afrikaans translations#UNIQUE
Arabic: فَرِيد (ar) (farīd)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#UNIQUE, فَذّ (faḏḏ)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#UNIQUE, وَحِيد (waḥīd)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#UNIQUE
Armenian: եզակի (hy) (ezaki)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#UNIQUE, ունիկալ (hy) (unikal)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#UNIQUE
Avar: цӏакъаб (cʼaqxʼab)Category:Terms with Avar translations#UNIQUE
Azerbaijani: unikalCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#UNIQUE
Belarusian: уніка́льны (unikálʹny)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#UNIQUE, адзі́ны (adzíny)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#UNIQUE, непаўто́рны (njepawtórny)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#UNIQUE
Bulgarian: уника́лен (bg) (unikálen)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#UNIQUE, неповтори́м (bg) (nepovtorím)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#UNIQUE, еди́нствен (bg) (edínstven)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#UNIQUE
Catalan: únic (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#UNIQUE
Chechen: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Chechen#UNIQUE
Chinese:
Hokkien: 特異 / 特异 (ti̍k-ī)Category:Terms with Hokkien translations#UNIQUE

Mandarin: 獨一無二 / 独一无二 (zh) (dúyīwú'èr)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#UNIQUE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#UNIQUE, 唯一 (zh) (wéiyī)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#UNIQUE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#UNIQUE, 特異 / 特异 (zh) (tèyì)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#UNIQUE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#UNIQUE
Czech: jedinečný (cs)Category:Terms with Czech translations#UNIQUE, unikátní (cs)Category:Terms with Czech translations#UNIQUE
Danish: unikCategory:Terms with Danish translations#UNIQUE, eneståendeCategory:Terms with Danish translations#UNIQUE
Dutch: uniek (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#UNIQUE
Esperanto: unikaCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#UNIQUE, ununuraCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#UNIQUE
Estonian: unikaalneCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#UNIQUE, ainulaadneCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#UNIQUE
Finnish: ainutlaatuinen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#UNIQUE
French: unique (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#UNIQUE
Galician: único (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#UNIQUE, senlleiro (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#UNIQUE, sobranceiroCategory:Terms with Galician translations#UNIQUE
Georgian: უნიკალური (uniḳaluri)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#UNIQUE, განუმეორებელი (ganumeorebeli)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#UNIQUE, ერთადერთი (ertaderti)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#UNIQUE, უბადლო (ubadlo)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#UNIQUE, შეუდარებელი (šeudarebeli)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#UNIQUE, უბადლო (ubadlo)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#UNIQUE
German: einzigartig (de)Category:Terms with German translations#UNIQUE, unikal (de)Category:Terms with German translations#UNIQUE, einzig (de)Category:Terms with German translations#UNIQUE
Greek: μοναδικός (el) (monadikós)Category:Terms with Greek translations#UNIQUE
Ancient Greek: μοναχός (monakhós)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#UNIQUE
Hindi: अनोखा (hi) (anokhā)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#UNIQUE, अनूठा (hi) (anūṭhā)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#UNIQUE
Hungarian: egyedi (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#UNIQUE, egyedülálló (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#UNIQUE
Ido: unika (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#UNIQUE
Indonesian: unik (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#UNIQUE
Irish: uathúilCategory:Terms with Irish translations#UNIQUE
Italian: unico (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#UNIQUE, peculiare (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#UNIQUE, speciale (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#UNIQUE
Japanese: 唯一 (ja) (yuiitsu)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#UNIQUE, 唯一無二 (ja) (yuiitsumuni)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#UNIQUE, (+ -な -na) ユニーク (ja) (yunīku)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#UNIQUE
Javanese: unikCategory:Terms with Javanese translations#UNIQUE
Kazakh: бірегей (bıregei)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#UNIQUE
Khmer: ពិសេស (km) (pisaeh)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#UNIQUE
Korean: 유일무이(唯一無二)하다 (yuilmu'ihada)Category:Terms with Korean translations#UNIQUE, 유일(唯一)하다 (ko) (yuilhada)Category:Terms with Korean translations#UNIQUE, 독특(獨特)하다 (ko) (dokteukhada)Category:Terms with Korean translations#UNIQUE, (odd) 희한(稀罕)하다 (ko) (huihanhada)Category:Terms with Korean translations#UNIQUE
Kyrgyz: сейрек (ky) (seyrek)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#UNIQUE
Latin: ūnicus (la)Category:Terms with Latin translations#UNIQUE
Macedonian: уника́тен (unikáten)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#UNIQUE, е́динствен (édinstven)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#UNIQUE, исклучи́телен (isklučítelen)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#UNIQUE
Māori: ahureiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#UNIQUE, tūhāhāCategory:Terms with Māori translations#UNIQUE
Mongolian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Mongolian#UNIQUE
Norwegian:
Bokmål: unikCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#UNIQUE
Old English: ænlicCategory:Terms with Old English translations#UNIQUE
Ossetian: иунӕт (iwnæt)Category:Terms with Ossetian translations#UNIQUE
Persian: یکتا (yektâ)Category:Terms with Persian translations#UNIQUE, بی‌مانند (bi-mânand)Category:Terms with Persian translations#UNIQUE (bookish), منحصربفرد (fa) (monhaserbefard)Category:Terms with Persian translations#UNIQUE
Polish: unikalny (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#UNIQUE, niepowtarzalny (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#UNIQUE, unikatowy (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#UNIQUE, wyjątkowy (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#UNIQUE
Portuguese: único (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#UNIQUE
Romanian: unic (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#UNIQUE
Russian: уника́льный (ru) (unikálʹnyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#UNIQUE, исключи́тельный (ru) (isključítelʹnyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#UNIQUE, еди́нственный (ru) (jedínstvennyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#UNIQUE, неповтори́мый (ru) (nepovtorímyj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#UNIQUE
Scottish Gaelic: àraidhCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#UNIQUE, air lethCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#UNIQUE
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: једѝнственCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#UNIQUE

Latin: jedìnstven (sh)Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#UNIQUE
Sindhi: منفرد (mufarid)Category:Sindhi terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#UNIQUE Category:Terms with Sindhi translations#UNIQUE
Slovak: jedinečnýCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#UNIQUE, unikátny (sk)Category:Terms with Slovak translations#UNIQUE
Slovene: edinstvenCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#UNIQUE
Spanish: único (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#UNIQUE, señero (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#UNIQUE
Swedish: unik (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#UNIQUE, enastående (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#UNIQUE
Tajik: беҳамто (tg) (behamto)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#UNIQUE, ягона (tg) (yagona)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#UNIQUE, беназир (tg) (benazir)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#UNIQUE, нодир (nodir)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#UNIQUE
Thai: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Thai#UNIQUE
Tibetan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Tibetan#UNIQUE
Turkish: benzersiz (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#UNIQUE, eşsiz (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#UNIQUE, özgün (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#UNIQUE, ünik (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#UNIQUE
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Ukrainian: уніка́льний (unikálʹnyj)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#UNIQUE, єди́ний (jedýnyj)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#UNIQUE, неповто́рний (nepovtórnyj)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#UNIQUE
Uzbek: noyob (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#UNIQUE, nodir (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#UNIQUE
Vietnamese: duy nhất (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#UNIQUE, độc nhất (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#UNIQUE, độc nhất vô nhị (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#UNIQUE, có một không hai (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#UNIQUE
Welsh: unigryw (cy)Category:Terms with Welsh translations#UNIQUE

(of a feature)

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Bulgarian: уникален (bg) (unikalen)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#UNIQUE
Italian: singolare (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#UNIQUE, speciale (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#UNIQUE, originale (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#UNIQUE
Macedonian: исклучи́телен (isklučítelen)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#UNIQUE
Persian: تک (fa) (tak)Category:Terms with Persian translations#UNIQUE

Noun

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A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.
- a. 1859, Thomas De Quincey, Language:
  The phoenix, the unique of birds.
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- 2020, John Harris, Exploring Roguelike Games:
  […] uniques of the game, Sauron and Morgoth, are found on levels 99 and 100 of the dungeon respectively, […]
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