Definition of Particular

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Particular

Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation.

Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular.

Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.

Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.

Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.

Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant.

Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise.

A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.

Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc.

One of the details or items of grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises.

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Particular Quotations

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
Thomas Jefferson

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony Robbins

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Particular Translations

particular in Afrikaans is spesiaal, afsonderlik
particular in Dutch is afzonderlijk, afgezonderd
particular in Finnish is eri
particular in German is Einzelheit, einzelne, besonders
particular in Italian is extra, vale a dire
particular in Latin is proprius
particular in Norwegian is spesiell
particular in Spanish is peculiar, especial, se alado, es que
particular in Swedish is speciell, detalj

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