particular

Meanings

Plural: particulars

Noun

• a fact about some part (as opposed to general)
  • "he always reasons from the particular to the general"
• a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
• (logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class
• A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
• A person's own individual case.
• A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)

Adjective Satellite

• unique or specific to a person or thing or category
  • "the particular demands of the job"
  • "has a particular preference for Chinese art"
• 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"
• surpassing what is common or usual or expected
  • "a matter of particular and unusual importance"
• first and most important
  • "she gets special (or particular) satisfaction from her volunteer work"
• exacting especially about details
  • "very particular about how her food was prepared"
• providing specific details or circumstances
  • "a particular description of the room"

Adj

• Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
• Specific; discrete; concrete.
• Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
• Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
• Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
• Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
• Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
• Containing a part only; limited.
• Holding a particular estate.
• Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.

Synonyms

accurate, anal-retentive, careful, choosy, comprehensive, concrete, conscientious, dainty, detail, discrete, especial, exacting, exceptional, exhaustive, fastidious, finical, finicking, finickity, finicky, finikin, fussy, groundly, hypercritical, in-depth, individual, intensive, item, letter-perfect, lily-handed, meticulous, mindful, minute, niggly, nit-picky, nitpickish, nitty, optimized, overcritical, overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, particular proposition, peculiar, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, picky, polished, precise, proper, punctilious, rigorous, root and branch, scrupulous, scrutinous, sedulous, singular, special, specialistic, specific, strict, thorough, tight

Antonyms

general, universal, universal proposition

Related Words

for one's particular, in particular, particular average, particular Church, particular integral, particulars, universal

Anagrams of particular