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say it: pur-TI-kyuh-lur
particular is an adjective and noun meaning "unique or specific to a person or thing or category". It carries 9 recorded senses.
unique or specific to a person or thing or category
“the particular demands of the job”
“has a particular preference for Chinese art”
“a peculiar bond of sympathy between them”
“an expression peculiar to Canadians”
“rights peculiar to the rich”
“the special features of a computer”
“my own special chair”
separate and distinct from others of the same group or category
“interested in one particular artist”
“a man who wishes to make a particular woman fall in love with him”
surpassing what is common or usual or expected
“he paid especial attention to her”
“exceptional kindness”
“a matter of particular and unusual importance”
“a special occasion”
“a special reason to confide in her”
“what's so special about the year 2000?”
exacting especially about details
“a finicky eater”
“fussy about clothes”
“very particular about how her food was prepared”
(logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for particular come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.