Inimitable vs Nonpareil - What's the difference?
inimitable | nonpareil |
Beyond imitation, surpassing all others, matchless.
Unequalled, unrivalled; unique.
* 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 33:
A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.
* c.1599-1601 , (William Shakespeare),
* , III.2.2.ii:
A small pellet of colored sugar used as decoration on baked goods and candy.
A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit.
(obsolete, printing) A type size between minion and agate or ruby (roughly 6pt); nonpareille.
* 1881 May 19, Hermann Cohn, ,
As adjectives the difference between inimitable and nonpareil
is that inimitable is beyond imitation, surpassing all others, matchless while nonpareil is unequalled, unrivalled; unique.As a noun nonpareil is
a person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.inimitable
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Usage notes
Not to be confused with .Derived terms
* inimitability * inimitablyAntonyms
* imitable * commonplaceSee also
* illimitable ----nonpareil
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(wikipedia nonpareil)Adjective
(en adjective)- A veritable artist, possessed of a deftness nonpareil with cotton swab and evacuation-hypo, the medical attaché is known among the shrinking upper classes of petro-Arab nations as the DeBakey of maxillofacial yeast […].
Noun
(en noun)Twelfth Night; or, What You Will,
- My lord and master loves you. O, such love / Could be but recompens'd though you were crown'd / The nonpareil of beauty!
- King John of France, once prisoner in England, came […] to see the Countess of Salisbury, the nonpareil of those times, and his dear mistress.
- I believe that letters which are less than a millimetre and a half (1/17 inch) high, will finally prove injurious to the eye. How little attention has hitherto been paid to this important subject is exemplified in the fact that even oculistic journals and books frequently contain nonpareil , or letters only a millimetre (1/25 inch) high.
