As adjectives the difference between interesting and unique
is that
interesting is arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone while
unique is being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
As a verb interesting
is present participle of lang=en.
As a noun unique is
a thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
interesting English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Arousing]] or holding the attention or [[interest#Noun, interest of someone.
Synonyms
* absorbing
Antonyms
* uninteresting
* boring
Derived terms
* interestingness
* interesting condition
Verb
(head)
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unique English
Adjective
( en adjective)
(not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=( The China Governess)
, chapter=3 citation
, passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique . The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}
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Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
Particular, characteristic.
* '>citation
(proscribed) Of a rare quality, unusual.
* {{quote-book, passage=And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique , the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.
, title=For Esmé—With Love and Squalor
, author=J.D. Salinger
, year=1950}}
Usage notes
The comparative and superlative forms more unique'' and ''most unique'', as well as the use of ''unique'' with modifiers as in ''fairly unique'' and ''very unique , are sometimes proscribed, with the reasoning that either something is unique or it is not.
Synonyms
( checksyns)
* one of a kind
* sui generis
* singular
Derived terms
* uniqueness
Related terms
* unicity
* one-of-a-kind
* inimitable
Noun
( en noun)
A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.
* De Quincey
- The phoenix, the unique of birds.
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