particular
unique or specific to a person or thing or category
How often you will meet it
Rank 933 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 19,744 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category also: peculiar, special the particular demands of the jobhas a particular preference for Chinese art
- separate and distinct from others of the same group or category interested in one particular artista man who wishes to make a particular woman fall in love with him
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected also: especial, exceptional, special he paid especial attention to herexceptional kindness
- first and most important also: special his special interest is musicshe gets special (or particular) satisfaction from her volunteer work
- exacting especially about details also: finical, finicky, fussy, picky a finicky eaterfussy about clothes
- providing specific details or circumstances a particular description of the room
noun
- a fact about some part (as opposed to general) also: specific he always reasons from the particular to the general
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole also: detail, item it was perfect in all details
particular in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Desmond, in particular, welcomed him quite warmly.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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Miss Howard, in particular, took no pains to conceal her feelings.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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For, as Mrs. Anderson had said, he had done nothing in particular.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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M. de Thaller, who could not then have been much over thirty, was already a man without any particular age.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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She had been thinking a good deal about her dress--this particular faithful one which she had already worn through a twelvemonth.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1