unrivaled

English

Alternative forms

• unrivalled (UK)

Etymology

From un- +‎ rivaled.

Adjective

unrivaled (not comparable)

1. (American spelling) Beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival.

   Synonym: peerless

   Helen’s unrivaled beauty is said to have launched a thousand ships.

   • 1907, John Galsworthy, “The Happy Hunting-ground”, in The Country House, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part I, page 33:

     [T]his museum of the state of flux [Newmarket, Suffolk] has a climate unrivalled for the production of the British temperament. Not without a due proportion of that essential formative of character, east wind, it has at once the hottest sun, the coldest blizzards, the wettest rain, of any place of its size in 'the three kingdoms.'

   • 2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     As the airboat skimmed across the shallow water, scattering blue dragonflies and launching a heron into the air, Keith Price squinted into the sun and relished the isolation of Florida’s unrivaled river of grass.

Translations

beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival

• German: konkurrenzlos, unvergleichlich, unerreicht (de)
• Greek: απαράμιλλος (el) (aparámillos)
• Khmer: មហិទ្ធិ (meaʔhet)
• Polish: bezkonkurencyjny
• Russian: непревзойдённый (ru) (neprevzojdjónnyj)
• Sanskrit: अद्वैत (sa) (advaita)
• Spanish: inigualable (es)
• Welsh: heb ail