Definition: matchless

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

matchless
     adj : eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the
           team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a
           million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless
           scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world";
           "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of
           her art" [syn: nonpareil, one, one and only,
            peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Matchless \Match"less\, a. [Cf. Mateless.]
   1. Having no equal; unequaled. ``A matchless queen.''
      --Waller.

   2. Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited. [Obs.] ``Matchless
      ears.'' --Spenser. -- Match"less*ly, adv. --
      Match"less*ness, n.