adj
Meaning 1
Not comparable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literally, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: noncomparable, uncomparable
Antonyms: comparable
Standard Lemma guide
incomparable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈkɒmp(ə)rəbəl/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪŋkəmˈpærəbəl/
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General-American: /ɪŋˈkɑmp(ə)ɹəbəl/
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General-American: /ɪŋkəmˈpɛɹəbəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
So much better than another as to be beyond comparison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparable, figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: matchless, unsurpassed
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Something beyond compare; a thing with which there is no comparison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an incomparable week of rest and pleasure
- the computer proceeds with its incomparable logic and efficiency
- this report is incomparable with the earlier ones because of different breakdowns of the data
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: uncomparable
Antonyms: comparable
History
Etymology
From Middle English incomparable, from Middle French incomparable, from Old French [Term?], from Latin incomparābilis. By surface analysis, in- + comparable.
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: incomparable — not comparable
- Galician: incomparable — not comparable
- Galician: incomparábel — not comparable
- German: inkomparabel — not comparable
- Hindi: अतुलनीय (atulnīya) — not comparable
- Latin: incomparābilis — not comparable
- Polish: nieporównywalny — not comparable
- Portuguese: incomparável — not comparable
- Romanian: necomparabil — not comparable
- Romanian: incomparabil — not comparable
- Spanish: incomparable — not comparable
- Armenian: անհամեմատելի (anhamemateli) — beyond comparison
- Azerbaijani: misilsiz — beyond comparison
- Azerbaijani: bənzərsiz — beyond comparison
- Belarusian: непараўна́льны (njeparawnálʹny) — beyond comparison
- Bulgarian: несравни́м (nesravním) — beyond comparison
- Bulgarian: безподо́бен (bezpodóben) — beyond comparison
- Catalan: incomparable — beyond comparison
- Chinese Cantonese: 冇得比 (mou5 dak1 bei2) — beyond comparison
- Chinese Mandarin: 無比的 /无比的 (wúbǐ de) — beyond comparison
- Czech: nesrovnatelný — beyond comparison
- Dutch: onvergelijkbaar — beyond comparison
- Finnish: verraton — beyond comparison
- Finnish: vertaansa vailla — beyond comparison
- French: incomparable — beyond comparison
- German: unvergleichlich — beyond comparison
- Greek: ασύγκριτος (asýgkritos) — beyond comparison
- Hungarian: összehasonlíthatatlan — beyond comparison
- Irish: dosháraithe — beyond comparison
- Italian: incomparabile — beyond comparison
- Macedonian: неспоредлив (nesporedliv) — beyond comparison
- Occitan: incomparable — beyond comparison
- Old English: unwiþmetendlīċ — beyond comparison
- Polish: nieporównywalny — beyond comparison
- Portuguese: incomparável — beyond comparison
- Romanian: incomparabil — beyond comparison
- Romanian: necomparabil — beyond comparison
- Russian: несравни́мый (nesravnímyj) — beyond comparison
- Russian: несравне́нный (nesravnénnyj) — beyond comparison
- Russian: бесподо́бный (bespodóbnyj) — beyond comparison
- Sanskrit: अतुल्य (atulya) — beyond comparison
- Slovak: neporovnateľný — beyond comparison
- Slovene: neprimerljiv — beyond comparison
- Spanish: incomparable — beyond comparison
- Spanish: inigualable — beyond comparison
- Tagalog: walang-kahulilip — beyond comparison
- Telugu: సాటిలేని (sāṭilēni) — beyond comparison
- Ukrainian: незрівня́нний (nezrivnjánnyj) — beyond comparison
Real reading context