matchless

Definition

Having no match; without equal.

Etymology

From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”), Danish mageløs (“matchless”).

Example Sentences

• "[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."
• "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."
• "In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her."