particular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
law
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English particuler, from Anglo-Norman particuler, Middle French particuler, particulier, from Late Latin particularis (“partial; separate, individual”), from Latin particula (“(small) part”). Equivalent to particle + -ar. Compare particle.
Base: particle
Affixes: -ar
Inflected forms:
form: more particular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most particular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: non-comparable
pos: adj
tags: also
form: perticular
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: particulars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perticular
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Specific; discrete; concrete.
pos: adj
examples: I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.
We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined locks to part / And each particular hair to stand on end
gloss: Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
pos: adj
examples: I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth
gloss: Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.
gloss: Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
pos: adj
examples: My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.
I didn't have any particular interest in the book.
He brought no particular news.
She was the particular belle of the party.
gloss: Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.
These women are more particular about their appearance.
There is a scraper as well as a mat, and Mrs. Challenger is most particular.
gloss: Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
pos: adj
examples: a full and particular account of an accident
gloss: Containing a part only; limited.
pos: adj
examples: a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder
gloss: Holding a particular estate.
pos: adj
examples: a particular tenant
gloss: Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
pos: adj
examples: a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".
gloss: A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
pos: noun
examples: I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.
gloss: A person's own individual case.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it.
temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public[…]or such as concern our particular
gloss: A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)
pos: noun
tags: plural
examples: When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals.
Related words: universal
for one's particular
Derived words: antiparticularism
antiparticularist
in particular
monoparticular
nanoparticular
nonparticular
overparticular
particular average
particular Church
particular council
particular integral
particularisation
particularism
particularist
particularity
particularization
particularize
particularly
particularness
particulars
unparticular
bill of particulars
London particular
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