Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unequaled; unmatched; matchless; peerless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Having no paragon or equal; matchless; peerless.

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  • adjective archaic superlative; the best; without equal.

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Examples

  • Each of the elements in "Hail to the Chimp" are compelling parts of the whole, working in concert to create a fun and rewarding game that will be unparagoned.

    Michael Mann: Game Design through Interpretive Dance 2008

  • Her hair was not unparagoned, wisps strayed beyond her ears.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Her hair was not unparagoned, wisps strayed beyond her ears.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • By ten o'clock he had reached a country of rolling beech-woods, and turning aside from the high road he wandered over the bare nutbrown soil that gave the glossy leaves high above a green unparagoned, a green so lambent that the glimpses of the sky beyond seemed opaque as turquoises amongst it.

    The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

  • Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or she’s outprized by a trifle.

    Act I. Scene IV. Cymbeline 1914

  • Quiney, to be visited and instructed in theology, the arts, and the sciences, by such teachers as that unparagoned spinster might, with his approval, select.

    Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • I will vouchsafe to aver that my interior sensations on penetrating the first gallery were those of acute and indignant disappointment, for will it be credited that a working majority of the exhibits were second, or even third and fourth-hand mechanisms of an unparagoned dingitude, and fit only for the lumbering room?

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

  • I made the further observation that the Comedians and Comics must be reduced to extreme pauperism, since they presented themselves before a well-dressed, respectable audience in garbage of unparagoned shabbiness, and with hair of unbrushed wildness, and needing immediate tonsure.

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

  • Remember that the slightest act of volition on your part can exalt my pecuniary status to the skies, as well as confer distinguished and unparagoned ennoblement upon your _cacoëthes scribendi_.

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

  • But, though doubting the authenticity of his assertions, I thought it prudential to decline the proof of the pudding, and so took a precipitate leave of him with profuse thanks for his unparagoned kindness, and many promises to put on the gloves with him at the first convenient opportunity.

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

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