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1. Composed of one member, set, or kind
    
2. Grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit
    
3. Unusual or striking
   "such poise is singular in one so young";
   - remarkable
    
4. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
   "singular behaviour";
   - curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum [Brit, informal], rummy [Brit, archaic, informal]
    
5. 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"
    
6. The single one of its kind
   "a singular example";
   - unique

1. The form of a word that is used to denote a singleton
   - singular form

Derived forms: singulars

See also: extraordinary, individual, oddball, single, strange, unusual

Type of: descriptor, form, signifier, word form

Antonym: plural, plural form

Encyclopedia: Singular