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Adjective
  • providing specific details or circumstances
    • a particular description of the room
  • exacting especially about details
    • a finicky eater
    • fussy about clothes
    • very particular about how her food was prepared
  • first and most important
    • his special interest is music
    • she gets special (or particular) satisfaction from her volunteer work
  • surpassing what is common or usual or expected
    • he paid especial attention to her
    • exceptional kindness
    • a matter of particular and unusual importance
    • a special occasion
    • a special reason to confide in her
    • what's so special about the year 2000?
  • separate and distinct from others of the same group or category
    • interested in one particular artist
    • a man who wishes to make a particular woman fall in love with him
  • unique or specific to a person or thing or category
    • the particular demands of the job
    • has a particular preference for Chinese art
    • a peculiar bond of sympathy between them
    • an expression peculiar to Canadians
    • rights peculiar to the rich
    • the special features of a computer
    • my own special chair
Noun
  • (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class
  • a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
    • it was perfect in all details
  • a fact about some part (as opposed to general)
    • he always reasons from the particular to the general
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