peerless

CEFRC1

/pˈɪrlɪs/

adjective

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adjective
Better than everyone or everything else of its kind.
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adjective
Extra detail
Without peer or equal; unparalleled, nonpareil. Of the highest quality, best.

Examples

They constructed therewith a peerless palace, which was of great beauty and of celestial make.
Tom's knowledge of decomposition ecology is peerless.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Let's after him, / Whoſe care is gone before, to bid vs welcome: / It is a peerleſſe Kinſman.
Having now seen himself mistaken in supposing Elfride to be peerless, nothing on earth could make him believe she was not so very bad after all.
Telegram! Malachi Mulligan, The Ship, lower Abbey street. O, you peerless mummer! O, you priestified Kinchite!

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Let's after him, / Whoſe care is gone before, to bid vs welcome: / It is a peerleſſe Kinſman.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard,...
Having now seen himself mistaken in supposing Elfride to be peerless, nothing on earth could make him believe she was not so very bad after all.
1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘XXXV’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC
After wearying oneself with the acres of stuffy, sappy, expressionless babies that populate the canvases of the Old Masters in Italy, it is refreshing to stand before this peerless child and feel that thrill which tells you you are at last in the presence of the real thing.
1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), “”, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 579
Telegram! Malachi Mulligan, The Ship, lower Abbey street. O, you peerless mummer! O, you priestified Kinchite!
1922 February, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC
“Would you go into the dragon's lair, my peerless Wiglaf?”
1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47

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From Middle English pereles, perles; equivalent to peer + -less.