Particular vs Representative - What's the difference?

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Particular is a related term of representative.

As adjectives the difference between particular and representative

is that particular is (obsolete) pertaining only to a part of something; partial while representative is .

As a noun particular

is a small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.

particular

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Alternative forms

* perticular (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.

Specific; discrete; concrete.

I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.

We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.

* Shakespeare

[Make] each particular hair to stand an end, / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.

I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.

* Francis Bacon

wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth

(obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.

* 1623 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , V.1:

or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.

Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).

My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.

I didn't have any particular interest in the book.

He brought no particular news.

She was the particular belle of the party.

(comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.

He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.

Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.

a full and particular account of an accident

(legal) Containing a part only; limited.

a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder

(legal) Holding a particular estate.

a particular tenant

(Blackstone)

(logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.

a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* general

Derived terms

* antiparticularism * antiparticularist * in particular * particular average * particular Church * particular integral * particularism * particularize * particularly * particularity

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Noun

(en noun)

A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.

(obsolete) A person's own individual case.

*, II.16:

*:Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it.

* Whole Duty of Man

temporal blessings, whether such as concern the publicor such as concern our particular

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representative

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.

Are you sure this paper is representative of your child's writing?

If you took all the fools out of the legislature, it wouldn't be a representative body anymore. — Texas State Senator Carl Parker.

Noun

(en noun)

One who may speak for another in a particular capacity, especially in negotiation.

I will send a representative to work out the details of the contract.

A member of a legislative or governing body who represents a constituency.

She served four terms as representative of her local at the national union convention.

One that is taken as typical of its class.

(US, politics) A member of the .

All representatives face re-election every two years.

Company agent who visits potential purchasers, salesman.

Synonyms

* rep * See also