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Unmatchable vs Matchless - What's the difference?

unmatchable | matchless |

As adjectives the difference between unmatchable and matchless

is that unmatchable is unable to be matched while matchless is having no match; without equal.

unmatchable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unable to be matched
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 2, author=Allan Kozinn, title=Celebrating Movie Musicals That Are Never Out of Date, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Yes, the originals were fantastic, perhaps even unmatchable . }}

    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