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matchless

The English word “matchless” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Having no match; without equal.
  2. Having no mate.
  3. Without the use of matches for ignition.

Etymology

From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”), Danish mageløs (“matchless”).

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