Dunno is listening to you
particular [ par·tic·u·lar ]
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1. Used to single out an individual member of a specified group or class.
What is it that keeps us all so interested in these particular individuals?
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2. Denoting a proposition in which something is asserted of some but not all of a class.
3. Especially great or intense.
So take particular care with personal hygiene in the mornings.
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4. Insisting that something should be correct or suitable in every detail; fastidious.
Sorry to be so particular about describing the packaging.
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1. A detail.
In serious argument you cannot generalise from the particular.
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2. (particulars) Detailed information about someone or something.
Irene is the person to contact for show schedules and more detailed particulars.
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3. An individual item, as contrasted with a universal quality.
But intellectual appetite is free because the intellect deals with universals, not particulars.
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1. Late Middle English from Old French particuler, from Latin particularis ‘concerning a small part’, from particula ‘small part’.
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