Respective vs Particular - What's the difference?
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Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own.
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(obsolete) Noticing with attention; careful; wary.
* Archbishop Sandys
(obsolete) Looking toward; having reference to; relative, not absolute.
(obsolete) Fitted to awaken respect.
* 1599 , , IV. iv. 192:
(obsolete) Rendering respect; respectful; regardful.
* Chapman
* Lord Burleigh
(obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
Specific; discrete; concrete.
* Shakespeare
Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
* 1623 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , V.1:
Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
(comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
(legal) Containing a part only; limited.
(legal) Holding a particular estate.
(logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
(obsolete) A person's own individual case.
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*:Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it.
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In obsolete terms the difference between respective and particular
is that respective is rendering respect; respectful; regardful while particular is a person's own individual case.As adjectives the difference between respective and particular
is that respective is relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own while particular is pertaining only to a part of something; partial.As a noun particular is
a small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.respective
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Adjective
(-)- They returned to their respective places of abode.
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- If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not refuse this charge.
- the respective connections of society
- What should it be that he respects in her / But I can make respective in myself,
- With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands.
- With thy equals familiar, yet respective .
Synonyms
* (relating to particular persons or things) corresponding, relevant, specificDerived terms
* respectiveness * irrespectiveparticular
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Alternative forms
* perticular (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- 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.
- [Make] each particular hair to stand an end, / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
- I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
- wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth
- or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.
- 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.
- He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.
- a full and particular account of an accident
- a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder
- a particular tenant
- (Blackstone)
- a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* generalDerived terms
* antiparticularism * antiparticularist * in particular * particular average * particular Church * particular integral * particularism * particularize * particularly * particularityExternal links
*Noun
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