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Particular

adjective

1.

Unique or specific to a person or thing or category. Synonyms: peculiar, special. "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"

2.

Separate and distinct from others of the same group or category. "A man who wishes to make a particular woman fall in love with him"

3.

Surpassing what is common or usual or expected. Synonyms: especial, exceptional, special. "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?"

4.

First and most important. Synonym: special. "She gets special (or particular) satisfaction from her volunteer work"

5.

Exacting especially about details. Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, picky. "Fussy about clothes" , "Very particular about how her food was prepared"

6.

Providing specific details or circumstances.

noun

1.

A fact about some part (as opposed to general). Synonym: specific. Antonym: general.

2.

A small part that can be considered separately from the whole. Synonyms: detail, item.

3.

(logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class. Synonym: particular proposition. Antonyms: universal proposition, universal.

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"Particular" Quotes from Famous Books

... other flag-raisings in history,—even the persons most interested in this particular one would grudgingly have allowed that much,—but it would have seemed to them improbable that any such flag-raising as theirs, either in magnitude of conception or brilliancy of actual performance, could twice glorify the same century. Of some pageants it is tacitly ...

— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... Kenelm, looking benignly at the speaker, "you seem to me a well-educated and intelligent man; reflective on things in general, without being unmindful of your interests in particular, especially when you have lodgings to let. Do not be offended. That sort of man is not perhaps born to be a painter, but I respect him highly. The world, sir, requires the vast majority of its inhabitants to live in it,—to live by it. 'Each for himself, ...

— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... ask in what manner the position I stand in at this moment affords you so much amusement? Is there any thing so particularly droll—any thing so excessively ludicrous in my situation —or what particular gift do you possess that shall prevent me throwing you out ...

— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

... apparently neither of these benighted heathens could distinguish between the "Free" and the "Wee Free," or the "U. P." or the "Established" and took us to the English Church. We had such a hunt for the particular branch of the Church of Scotland. It was quite a small kirk, and our numbers were in proportion. We arrived a little hot and angry at being so misled, but the best man, a brother officer of the bridegroom, had not turned up, so we waited a little and chatted and joked a little, and felt in ...

— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

... out from behind Harris; "I'll hide behind no man's shoulder. I salted the gambler—if you call shooting salting—and I'm not afraid to repeat the action by salting a dozen more just of his particular style." ...

— Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road - or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills • Edward L. Wheeler

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