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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INCOM'PARABLE, a. [in and comparable.] That admits of no comparison with others; usually in a good sense, but it may be properly used in a bad sense. When we say, an incomparable man, we mean a man of good qualities, or of some excellence that raises him above comparison or equality with others. So we say, incomparable excellence, virtue, wit, etc. But incomparable baseness or malignity may be used with propriety.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared; "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" [syn: incomparable, uncomparable] [ant: comparable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin incomparabilis, from in- + comparabilis comparable Date: 15th century 1. eminent beyond comparison ; matchless 2. not suitable for comparison • incomparability noun • incomparably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 without an equal; matchless. 2 (often foll. by with, to) not to be compared. Derivatives: incomparability n. incomparableness n. incomparably adv. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L incomparabilis (as IN-(1), COMPARABLE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Incomparable In*com"pa*ra*ble, a. [L. incomparabilis: cf. F. incomparable. See In- not, and Comparable.] Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent. A merchant of incomparable wealth. --Shak. A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir Isaac Newton for a patron. --Bp. Warburton. -- In*com"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- In*com"pa*ra*bly, adv. Delights incomparably all those corporeal things. --Bp. Wilkins.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe someone or something as incomparable, you mean that they are extremely good or impressive. ...a play starring the incomparable Edith Evans... ADJ 2. You use incomparable to emphasize that someone or something has a good quality to a great degree. (FORMAL) ...an area of incomparable beauty. = superlative ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Transcendent, peerless, matchless, unrivalled, unequalled, unparalleled, inimitable, surpassing.

Moby Thesaurus

alien, apart, beyond compare, beyond comparison, detached, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissimilar, dissociated, easily first, exotic, extraneous, facile princeps, foreign, immortal, incommensurable, incommensurate, independent, inimitable, insular, invincible, irrelative, isolated, matchless, nonpareil, not comparable to, nulli secundus, of different orders, other, outlandish, peerless, removed, second to none, segregate, separate, separated, strange, sui generis, superior, superlative, supreme, surpassing, transcendent, unaffiliated, unallied, unapproachable, unapproached, unassociated, unbeatable, unconnected, unequaled, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unlike, unmatchable, unmatched, unparagoned, unparalleled, unpeered, unrelatable, unrelated, unrivaled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, without equal, without parallel