Adjective: particular
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more particular |
| Superlative | most particular |
Sample Sentences
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I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.
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We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.
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I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined locks to part / And each particular hair to stand on end [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:]
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I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
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wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
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or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere. [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]
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Particular tension is documented among researchers in the AIDS Program Laboratory of the Center for Infectious Disease [1986 February 15, Elizabeth Pincus, “The CDC: When Politics & Egos Hamper Saving Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39, page 1:]
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My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.
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I didn't have any particular interest in the book.
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He brought no particular news.
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She was the particular belle of the party.
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He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.
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These women are more particular about their appearance.
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There is a scraper as well as a mat, and Mrs. Challenger is most particular. [1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:]
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a full and particular account of an accident
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a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder
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a particular tenant [1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:]
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a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".
Adjectives inflected like particular
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English particuler, from Anglo-Norman particuler, Middle French particuler, particulier, from Late Latin particularis (“partial; separate, individual”), from Latin particula (“(small) part”). Equivalent to particle + -ar. Compare particle.
Verbs referencing "particular"
Finnish Adjectives
partikulaari, Finnish Adjectives
partikulaarinen.