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Matchless vs Immatchable - What's the difference?

matchless | immatchable |

As adjectives the difference between matchless and immatchable

is that matchless is having no match; without equal while immatchable is (obsolete) matchless; peerless.

matchless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having no match; without equal.
  • * 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 8:
    • [T]he Prince was to declare the victor in the first day's tourney, who should receive as prize a warhorse of exquisite beauty and matchless strength.
  • * 2002 , Daniel Okrent, " Books: A Prince of a Pitcher" (Review of: Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy''), ''Time , 30 Sept.:
    • It was not his matchless talent that exalted Koufax beyond his greatest contemporaries so much as it was his knowledge that character was not connected to talent.
  • Having no mate.
  • * 2010 , Sandra Brennan, " Movies: The Flying Matchmaker (1966)," nytimes.com , 1 June (retrieved 13 Sep 2010):
    • In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her.

    Synonyms

    * (without equal) incomparable, nonpareil, peerless, unequaled, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed * (having no mate) single, unattached

    Derived terms

    * matchlessly * matchlessness

    immatchable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) matchless; peerless
    • (Holland)
    (Webster 1913)