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peerless is an adjective meaning "eminent beyond or above comparison". It carries one recorded sense.
eminent beyond or above comparison
“matchless beauty”
“the team's nonpareil center fielder”
“she's one girl in a million”
“the one and only Muhammad Ali”
“a peerless scholar”
“infamy unmatched in the Western world”
“wrote with unmatchable clarity”
“unrivaled mastery of her art”
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 peerless 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.