Particular (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
  2. immediately present or under consideration; in this specific instance or place: Look at this particular clause in the contract.
  3. distinguished or different from others or from the ordinary; noteworthy; marked; unusual: She sang with particular warmth at last evening's concert.
  4. exceptional or especial: Take particular pains with this job.
  5. being such in an exceptional degree: a particular friend of mine.
  6. dealing with or giving details, as an account or description, of a person; detailed; minute.
  7. exceptionally selective, attentive, or exacting; fastidious; fussy: to be particular about one's food.
  8. Logic.
    • not general; referring to an indefinite part of a whole class.
    • (of a proposition) containing only existential quantifiers.
    • partaking of the nature of an individual as opposed to a class.
  9. Law.
    • noting an estate that precedes a future or ultimate ownership, as lands devised to a widow during her lifetime and after that to her children.
    • noting the tenant of such an estate.
noun
  1. an individual or distinct part, as an item of a list or enumeration.
  2. specific points, details, or circumstances: to give an investigator the particulars of a case.
  3. an individual or a specific group within a general class.
Idioms
  1. particularly; specifically; especially: There is one book in particular that may help you.
adjective
  1. of or belonging to a single or specific person, thing, category, etc; specific; special
  2. exceptional or marked
  3. relating to or providing specific details or circumstances
  4. exacting or difficult to please, esp in details; fussy
  5. (of the solution of a differential equation) obtained by giving specific values to the arbitrary constants in a general equation
  6. (of a proposition) affirming or denying something about only some members of a class of objects, as in some men are not wicked
  7. denoting an estate that precedes the passing of the property into ultimate ownership
noun
  1. a separate distinct item that helps to form a generalization: opposed to general
  2. an item of information; detail
  3. logic another name for individual (def. 7a)
  4. an individual object, as contrasted with a universal
  5. especially, particularly, or exactly
Particular (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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