single

  • (a) being or characteristic of a single thing or person
    • individual drops of rain
    • please mark the individual pages
    • they went their individual ways
    individual,
  • (a) used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals
    • single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals
  • (a) existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual
    • upon the hill stood a single tower
    • had but a single thought which was to escape
    • a single survivor
    • a single serving
    • a single lens
    • a single thickness
  • (a) not married or related to the unmarried state
    • unmarried men and women
    • unmarried life
    • sex and the single girl
    • single parenthood
    • are you married or single?
    unmarried,
  • (s) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
    • an individual serving
    • single occupancy
    • a single bed
    individual,
  • (s) having uniform application
    • a single legal code for all
  • (s) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective
    • judging a contest with a single eye
    • a single devotion to duty
    • undivided affection
    • gained their exclusive attention
    exclusive, undivided,

Nouns

  • (n) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base bingle,
  • (n) the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
    • he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it
    • they had lunch at one
    1, ace, one, I, unity,

Verbs

  • (v) hit a single
    • the batter singled to left field

Synonyms

individual bingle 1 ace one I unity unmarried exclusive undivided

Antonyms

common double multiple married

See also

separate unmated

Words of close approximity

singly
singe
Singan singer singly
single-barreled single-barrelled single bed single-bedded single-breasted single-breasted jacket single-breasted suit single-celled single-channel single combat single cream single crochet single dwelling single entry single-entry bookkeeping single file single-foot single-handed single-handedly single-humped single-lane single-leaf single-leaf pine single-leaf pinyon single-member system single-minded single-mindedly single-mindedness singleness single nucleotide polymorphism single out single prop single-propeller plane single quote single-reed instrument single-reed woodwind single-rotor helicopter singles single-seeded single shell single-shelled single-spaced single-spacing singlestick single stitch single-stranded single supplement singlet singletary pea single tax singleton single-valued function