Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, belonging to, or associated with a specific person, group, thing, or category; not general or universal.
- adjective Distinctive among others of the same group, category, or nature; noteworthy or exceptional.
- adjective Of, relating to, or providing details; precise.
- adjective Attentive to or concerned with details or niceties, often excessively so; fussy.
- adjective Logic Encompassing some but not all of the members of a class or group. Used of a proposition.
- noun An individual item, fact, or detail.
- noun Logic A particular proposition.
- idiom (in particular) Particularly; especially.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or concerning a part; pertaining to some and not to all; special; not general.
- Individual; single; special; apart from others; considered separately.
- Properly belonging to a single person, place, or thing; peculiar; specially characteristic: as, the particular properties of a plant.
- Hence Personal; private; individual.
- Having something that eminently distinguishes; worthy of attention and regard; specially noteworthy; not ordinary; unusual;notable; striking.
- Attentive to or noting details; minute in examination; careful.
- Containing or emphasizing details; minute;circumstantial; detailed: as, a full and particular account of an accident.
- Peculiar; singular; standing out from what is general or ordinary, especially in the way of showing pointed personal attention.
- Nice in taste; precise; fastidious: as, a man very particular in his diet or dress.
- In logic, not general; not referring to the whole extent of a class, but only to some individual or individuals in it.
- =Syn. 1–3. Separate, distinctive.
- 3 and Peculiar, etc. see
special . - Circumstantial, etc. See
minute . - 9, Exact, scrupulous.
- noun A single instance or matter; a single point or circumstance; a distinct, separate, or minute part or detail.
- noun A specialist; one who devotes himself to doing things on his own account and not in partnership.
- noun Private account or interest; personal interest or concern; part; portion; account.
- noun Individual state or character; special peculiarity.
- noun A minute and detailed account; a minute: as, a particular of premises; a particular of a plaintiff's demand, etc.
- noun Something specially made for, belonging to, or the choice of a person: as, he drank a glass of his own particular.
- To particularize.
- noun A humorous name for a London fog.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately.
- noun obsolete Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc.
- noun (Law) One of the details or items of grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account.
- noun See under
Bill . - noun specially; specifically; peculiarly; particularly; especially.
- noun to relate or describe in detail or minutely.
- adjective Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular.
- adjective Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special
- adjective Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; ; hence, nice; fastidious.
- adjective Containing a part only; limited.
- adjective Holding a particular estate.
- adjective (Logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject
- adjective See under
Average . - adjective one of a branch of the Baptist denomination the members of which hold the doctrine of a particular or individual election and reprobation.
- adjective (Law) a lien, or a right to retain a thing, for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, that particular thing.
- adjective the doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See
Calvinism .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Pertaining only to a
part of something;partial .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In particular, to complain about the lack of representation of a *particular* industry point of view at an open event such as this one and then disparaging its products, whatever their inevitable limitations is simply perplexing.
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In particular, to complain about the lack of representation of a *particular* industry point of view at an open event such as this one and then disparaging its products, whatever their inevitable limitations is simply perplexing.
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But the pleasure of any particular social enjoyment outweighs very considerably the uneasiness caused by the want of that particular enjoyment; so that the strongest sensations relative to the habitudes of _particular society_ are sensations of pleasure.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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“Therefore I would observe,” says he, “that the particular nature of existence, be it never so diverse from others, can lay no foundation for that thing coming into existence without a cause; because, to suppose this, would be to suppose the _particular nature_ of existence to be a thing prior to existence, without a cause or reason of existence.
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843
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The IT field in particular is notorious for rapid job changes.
Becker on Health Insurance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Although glasses do portray a much more scholarly economist, I think that opportunity cost in particular is low.
Should I Get LASIK?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Among the Prophetic faith traditions, African American Christianity, in particular, is very clear about both religious freedom and separation of church and state.
The Courts 2009
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Affirmative action, in particular, is popular among elites.
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For instance, the contributions of Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen were strongly linked by intellectual influence, in particular from the older Laureate (Frisch) to the younger.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969-2006 2010
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His take on that university in particular is that at the undergraduate level, students and professors have very low-level expectations of one another in the classroom.
madmouth commented on the word particular
As Emily of New Moon writes in her childish journal: "My aunts are very perticular". A defining characteristic of Victorian aunts.
April 11, 2009
Louises commented on the word particular
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