Adjective

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Never before seen or done, without precedent.

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, year=2011 , date=December 19 , author=Kerry Brown , title=Kim Jong-il obituary , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.}}

Adjective

(en-adj)

(not comparable) Single; sole; singular; not having a mate.

(obsolete) Singular in excellence; unique; sole; matchless; peerless; famous.

Singular in looks or character; peculiar; eccentric.

Strange, unusual.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}

(not comparable) Occasional; infrequent.

* (Sir Walter Scott), Guy Mannering – or The Astrologer

I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.

(not comparable) Left over, remaining when the rest have been grouped.

(not comparable) Casual, irregular, not planned.

(not comparable, in combination with a number, not comparable) About, approximately.

(not comparable) Not divisible by two; not even.