peerless

/ˈpɪrlɪs/

Other forms: peerlessly

Do you ever feel like one of a kind? Then maybe you are peerless, a word for someone (or something) unique, excellent, and superior.

Peerless is a variation of peer — a word for folks in the same boat as you, or at least the same class. A teacher's peers are other teachers, but if she's a much better teacher than anyone, you could call her a peerless teacher. One of the many compliments given to Michael Jordan is that he was peerless. Amazing, one-of-a-kind people like Picasso, Gandhi, and Shakespeare are considered peerless. The rest of us have a lot of peers.

Definitions of peerless

1. adjective

   eminent beyond or above comparison
   “a peerless scholar”

   synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled

   incomparable, uncomparable

   such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared