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say it: SINGG-yuh-lur
singular is an adjective and noun meaning "unusual or striking". It is pronounced /ˈsɪŋɡjəlɚ/ — SINGG-yuh-lur. It carries 7 recorded senses.
unusual or striking
“a remarkable sight”
“such poise is singular in one so young”
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
“a curious hybrid accent”
“her speech has a funny twang”
“they have some funny ideas about war”
“had an odd name”
“the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves”
“something definitely queer about this town”
“what a rum fellow”
“singular behavior”
being a single and separate person or thing
“can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?”
“every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind”
composed of one member, set, or kind
grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit
the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton
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 singular 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.