unique

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unique traditionally means "being the only one of its kind", as in "a unique work of art" and "everyone's fingerprints are unique" and so cannot be modified by such words as "very", "rather", "more", etc, although it can be modified by "almost" and "nearly". In modern usage unique is often used to mean "unrivalled, unparalleled, outstanding", as in "a unique opportunity" and "a unique performance".