Exemplary vs Matchless - What's the difference?
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Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated.
* Francis Bacon
Ideal or perfect.
Serving as a warning; monitory.
(obsolete) An example, or typical instance; an exemplar
(obsolete) A copy of a book or writing.
Having no match; without equal.
* 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 8:
* 2002 , Daniel Okrent, "
Having no mate.
* 2010 , Sandra Brennan, "
Exemplary is a related term of matchless.
As adjectives the difference between exemplary and matchless
is that exemplary is deserving honour, respect and admiration while matchless is having no match; without equal.As a noun exemplary
is (obsolete) an example, or typical instance; an exemplar.exemplary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary .
- as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages
Noun
(exemplaries)- (Donne)
matchless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [T]he Prince was to declare the victor in the first day's tourney, who should receive as prize a warhorse of exquisite beauty and matchless strength.
Books: A Prince of a Pitcher" (Review of: Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy''), ''Time , 30 Sept.:
- It was not his matchless talent that exalted Koufax beyond his greatest contemporaries so much as it was his knowledge that character was not connected to talent.
Movies: The Flying Matchmaker (1966)," nytimes.com , 1 June (retrieved 13 Sep 2010):
- In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her.
